Shifted into the comments, the personal digression to explain why I am interested in “paradigms”/ (comprehensive explanatory worldviews, esp in science): one of the better lucks in my life was to study International Relations at the London School of Economics partially under the great Fred Halliday, who had been the editor of Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method, a provocative book on how we can or cannot advance knowledge. At LSE, the echoes of Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos reverberated through the LSE IR Department. With scholars such as Michael Banks, philosophy of science was like a core architecture of the curriculum to anyone who wanted to pay attention. It's also from this "paradigm" angle that I discuss some of the things here.
Shifted into the comments, the personal digression to explain why I am interested in “paradigms”/ (comprehensive explanatory worldviews, esp in science): one of the better lucks in my life was to study International Relations at the London School of Economics partially under the great Fred Halliday, who had been the editor of Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method, a provocative book on how we can or cannot advance knowledge. At LSE, the echoes of Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos reverberated through the LSE IR Department. With scholars such as Michael Banks, philosophy of science was like a core architecture of the curriculum to anyone who wanted to pay attention. It's also from this "paradigm" angle that I discuss some of the things here.
Hans, this is helpful to truth, to Georgia and to our academic circles. Thank you.