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Book Review: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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Wow! It’s 10pm on a cool spring night of March 2021, and what do I discover lurking in my drafts? A review of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions from 2018 that I never got around to finishing! (Maybe because Slate Star Codex published a review around the same time and I got dispirited?) But hey, the draft actually seems pretty good! So in the spirit of anti-perfectionism, here it is, in all its wonderful unfinished glory. Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions1 has been one of those things you stumble across accidentally and then suddenly start noticing references to everywhere. What brought it to my attention was a discussion with my supervisor about what kind of impact one should expect to have with one’s research. One of his key takeaways from reading Structure was how hard it is to come up with earth-shattering ideas once you’ve been immersed in a field for along time; that the really new ideas often have to come from someone on the outside. While digesting this

Wow! It’s 10pm on a cool spring night of March 2021, and what do I discover lurking in my drafts? A review of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions from 2018 that I never got around to finishing! (Maybe because Slate Star Codex published a review around the same time and I got dispirited?) But hey, the draft actually seems pretty good! So in the spirit of anti-perfectionism, here it is, in all its wonderful unfinished glory. Introduction Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 1 has been one of those things you stumble across accidentally and then suddenly start noticing refere

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