We already have most of the theory developed, the work of science now is just filling in the details - putting the final brushstrokes on the complete understanding of reality.
Science is growing closer and closer to capturing truth with a capital T in its theories. The history of science on this view is seen a linear progression of slow and steady incremental refinement over the course of the past few centuries. The standard view of scientific progression before Kuhn - and a view that still seems to hold more sway in popular culture - is the idea that science is a piecemeal cumulative process. It is in contrast to this view that Kuhn’s term paradigm stands and so getting a clearer picture of what the term is distinguished from will give us a clearer idea of what he means by paradigm. The Traditional vs Kuhnian History of Scienceīefore we get into the term paradigm, it’s worth taking a moment to consider the traditional view of scientific progress. This term has attained a state of ubiquity that most buzzwords can only dream of from the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies to the circle sharing at remote hippy communes, the term has penetrated every layer of the culture. In this article, we are going to look at the central idea of Kuhn’s work: the term paradigm. What’s interesting in Kuhn’s case is just how different his background is from the people usually entrusted with these labels. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions saw Kuhn labelled as a relativist, an irrationalist, an anti-realist and perhaps most horrifying of all a postmodernist. In our post-Kuhnian world where the word paradigm is thrown around like hotcakes, it is difficult to appreciate just how revolutionary Kuhn’s reconception of science was. In the book, Kuhn challenges all the traditional notions about how science progresses. Its release in 1962 triggered a hornet’s nest of activity in response. Thomas Kuhn’s work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the most referenced academic works in history and one of the most influential and controversial books of the 20 th century.
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