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13 Feb 2007, 3:48 pm
Science textbooks like to present sanitized stories of incremental, orderly advancement, but as Thomas Kuhn famously argued, history actually abounds with disjointed progress, serendipitous accidents, and unanticipated consequences, both good and bad. [read post]
The term “cost imposition” is deeply ingrained in U.S. nuclear and conventional strategic theory and in policy discussions of strategy. [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 5:18 am by Maxwell Kennerly
Maybe the entire intellectual framework changed, like in Thomas Kuhn's vision scientific revolutions; or maybe it was more like Max Planck's theory of change: "new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 7:51 am by Steve Lubet
  Unless you can satisfactorily answer these questions, I fear that you fall into Thomas Kuhn’s category of those who are unwilling to give up their paradigm in the face of new information. [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 11:24 am by Jane Bambauer
” We shouldn’t pretend that accepted knowledge is the same as truth (for reasons that Thomas Kuhn elaborated), but based on the best instruments and standards for evidence at a given time, a subset of factual claims can be specially recognized as reliable and verifiable. [read post]
10 Jun 2007, 2:29 pm
Quine, Donald Davidson, Thomas Kuhn, and Wilfrid Sellars. [read post]
9 Apr 2009, 3:12 pm
  In sum, I think students can experience close to a "paradigm shift" in their view of how constitutional law works in a global course (I couldn't figure out how to fit Karl Popper in here from the prior posts so readers will have to settle for Thomas Kuhn). [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 8:25 am by Quinta Jurecic
As the litigation over the travel ban has developed, the debate over the legality of the policy increasingly hinges on whether the judiciary can permissibly consider off-the-cuff statements made by Trump and his associates as evidence of religious animus in the drafting of the executive orders. [read post]
12 Aug 2020, 2:35 pm by Matthias Weller
Internationales Privat- und Verfahrensrecht sowie Völkerrecht Moritz BRINKMANN und Thomas VOGT GEISSE Qualifikation und Anknüpfung von Instrumenten der prozessvorbereitenden Aufklärung Eckart BRÖDERMANN Vom Drachen-steigen-Lassen – Ein internationales Jura-Märchen zum IPR/IZVR Hannah L. [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 11:30 am
Is it plausible that scientists and engineers could overlook fatal flaws in a multi-billion-dollar project? [read post]
14 Sep 2007, 10:42 am
Kuhn, 407, U.S. 258, 282 (1972).[26] Darren Rovell, Baseball's Antitrust Exemption: Q & A, ESPN.Com, . [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 5:13 am by Gary L. Francione
Certain secularists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens, often referred to as “New Atheists,” are the latest to tell us that we should look to rationality and science to figure out what to think about important moral issues. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 5:48 am by Rui Dias
In this context, it is of note that the EU, among others, has opened a Public Consultation into a possible accession to the Convention (see, esp., Thomas John’s posting announcing the EU’s public consultation). [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 1:35 pm by WIMS
Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas Donohue issued a statement saying, "We are tremendously disappointed with the administration's decision to ignore the significant risks that will result from the implementation timeline of the Utility MACT rule. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 8:37 pm by Caleb Mason
  The most influential work in philosophy science (Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) is I think best (only?) [read post]
24 Jan 2022, 9:05 pm by Dan Flynn
” Included in the meeting were Kiecker, Jeremy Todd Reed, chief pperating officer; and Karen Hunter, chief of staff, FSIS;  On Aug. 10, Eskin did “Meet and Greet” sessions with Jake Kuhns, Director of Federal Government Relations at Cargill, and Angie Siemens, vice president at Cargill. [read post]
19 Jun 2018, 11:00 am by Michael Neiberg
Thomas Kuhn’s work on the history of science shows that dominant paradigms are constantly being challenged, and those invested in the existing paradigm may consciously or unconsciously ignore the evidence of impending change. [read post]
1 Jan 2012, 8:19 am by J. Gordon Hylton
Forty-five years ago, the baseball world trained its attention on the Wisconsin Supreme Court and its impending decision in the case of Wisconsin v. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 7:13 pm by Rick
As Thomas Kuhn noted in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, oftentimes, before a new paradigm can come to the fore, the old guard has to die out. [read post]