Big Bang?

[John Doe]

Did you actually read Thomas Kuhn? Paradigm shifts;
explain to me what YOU think he meant by them...as for
all the other aspects of scientific method you listed;
ALL those have been part of the method since day
one...so what's your point?

--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> On 09/10/2005, at 9:07 PM, Cyrus wrote:
> 
> >> Does "Science", or your version of it, [...]
> >
> >
> > MY version of it? What does that mean? Are there
> more than one? If it 
> > follows the scientific method it's science, isn't
> it? Is there more to 
> > it?
> 
> Sure -- paradigm shifts, new scientific disciplines
> and methodologies, 
> qualitative as well as quantitative approaches, the
> philosophy of 
> science, ethics etc etc. There's a lot more to
> "Science" and its 
> methodology nowadays than Beaker the Muppet.
> 
>
http://dharma-haven.org/science/myth-of-scientific-method.htm
> (seems 
> like a reasonable overview, linked from the
> wikipedia entry on "the 
> scientific method")
> 
> Pynchon's depictions of scientists (and scientists
> at work) are pretty 
> negative on the whole -- Ben Franklin in M&D is
> another example. The 
> new book will be interesting in this context.
> 
> best
> 
> 



	
		
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