Showing papers by "Trevor Pinch published in 1977"
01 Jan 1977
TL;DR: The problem of communication between scientists with differing cognitive commitments was first raised by Kuhn as discussed by the authors, who considered scientists as being bound by monistic paradigms which change at times of scientific revolution.
Abstract: One of the more interesting problems to arise from the Kuhnian (1) analysis of science is the problem of communication between scientists with differing cognitive commitments. By conceiving of scientists as being bound by monistic paradigms which change at times of scientific revolution Kuhn raised the problem of how scientists working within rival paradigms communicate. Kuhn refers to the adherents of the rival paradigms as talking ‘through each other’ (2) which implies that little communication between paradigms occurs.
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