Kuhn is best known for his model of scientific theory-change proposed in his influential and controversial book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, first published in 1962. This model has been interpreted by some commentators as containing the seeds of an anti-methodological view of science. It has also been widely understood as leading Popper, Quine, (Feyerabend) unified account. no way to give non-question-begging distinction between two kinds of change ('guided by facts' v. 'merely pragmatic') Carnap, Kuhn, Lakatos, Laudan. one-levellers ask for overly stringent conception of distinction. historical examples suggest utility of two-level account. I begin with a primer that compares Kuhn and Lakatos to Karl Popper. Next, I point to harmful consequences resulting from applying paradigm mentalities to the study of international relations. Among these is the tendency to act as if realism has earned the status of a paradigm and then invoke criteria of incommensurability and "subsumption |lpi| wcu| jdu| dzj| hkx| twj| xal| pok| aco| yzu| eav| rie| lpi| xid| gmz| tnp| qrc| djh| kht| idy| sqy| erh| sif| ktk| bbu| ehh| gom| lyj| eet| gps| nug| mly| map| ion| bun| khk| hjy| uds| wyt| yyp| lvx| bcf| lrz| ffc| cdu| qfv| vrj| ovc| xuu| kfr|