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What are paradigms. Paradigms. What are paradigms Research traditions World views – logic, the implication Paradigms decide phenomena, data, theory Paradigm shift: ex classical physics – quantum mechanics. Thomas Kuhn. Paradigms. Thomas Kuhn:
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What are paradigms Paradigms What are paradigms Research traditions World views – logic, the implication Paradigms decide phenomena, data, theory Paradigm shift: ex classical physics – quantum mechanics
Thomas Kuhn Paradigms Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962 • The scientific process is not naive (as preconditioned in an Euclidian model) Researchers belongs to a paradigm in which they work – they are prejudiced. Ex. Data – Theories decides what counts as data. Kuhn: “Science is like every day life: we learn from experience, we are socialised to a culture, to a paradigm”.
Paradigms 2. Paradigms: a unity of phenomena, data, theory and results. Ex. Ptolemaic world view – Copernican world view
Paradigms Normal science 3. Normal science – researchers are fiddling with jigsaws, data are applied to theory – anomalies 4. The number of anomalies grow increasingly – they can no longer fit the paradigm => crisis Ex. The Ptolemaic world view, Classical physics.
A new paradigm Paradigms 5. A new paradigm is constructed A scientific revolution => simpler and more elegant explanations. Researchers change their maind. 6. Paradigms are incommensurable 7. Natural sciences: Dominating paradigms Humanities and social science: Conflicting paradigms
Conclusions Paradigms Conclusions: Paradigms in your projects? Theories in your projects? Truth claims in your projects? What type of data? What type of phenomena do the data represent? Are your work scientific?