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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Science Progress via Paradigmatic Shifts and Revolutions
The science progress via paradigm shifts and revolutions as philosopher Thomas Coon said, or does it progress gradually? What do you think? Well, I got into this field because I was Tom Coon's research assistant 52 years ago. He pulled me into it out of physics instead. Do I think things work that way? No, not really. But there is a common structure that formulates both theoretical and experimental practices. And historians nowadays of science like to refer to scientific work as what scientists practice. They can usually adapt in various ways.
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