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The Incommensurable Thomas Kuhn
William Storage 4 Aug 2012 Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Center for Science, Technology & Society Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, appears in Wikipedia’s...
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Paul Feyerabend – The Worst Enemy of Science
William Storage 7 Aug 2012 Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Center for Science, Technology & Society This post is a selective look at Paul Feyerabend, called the worst enemy of science by a...
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Thomas Kuhn’s Disruptive Paradigm Shift Innovation
William Storage 4 Sep 2012 Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Center for Science, Technology & Society Decades ago I read Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, but...
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Richard Rorty: A Matter for the Engineers
William Storage 13 Sep 2012 Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Science, Technology & Society Center Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was arguably the most controversial philosopher in recent history....
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Are You Kuhnian?
For the last year or so I’ve done a lot of reading about and by Thomas Kuhn. Kuhn’s Structures of Scientific Revolution had its 50th anniversary last year. Though you may not recognize his name, you...
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Kuhn’s Constructionist Corner
A classic is a book that everyone has an no one reads. Or everyone wants to have read but doesn’t want to read. Or so said Mark Twain. Or so people say he said. Two friends (count ‘em, two!) read my...
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Incommensurability and the Design-Engineering Gap
Those who conceptualize products – particularly software – often have the unpleasant task of explaining their conceptual gems to unimaginative, sanctimonious engineers entrenched in the analytic mire...
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Great Philosophers Damned to Hell
April 1 2015. My neighbor asked me if I thought anything new ever happened in philosophy, or whether, 2500 years after Socrates, all that could be worked out in philosophy had been wrapped up and...
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Can Science Survive?
In my last post I ended with the question of whether science in the pure sense can withstand science in the corporate, institutional, and academic senses. Here’s a bit more on the matter. Ronald...
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Paul Feyerabend, The Worst Enemy of Science
“How easy it is to lead people by the nose in a rational way.” A similarly named post I wrote on Paul Feyerabend seven years ago turned out to be my most popular post by far. Seeing it referenced in a...
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