What Is This Lecture and Why Is It Important?

The lecture was originally delivered as the machet lecture at firman university in greenville, south carolina on the thirtieth of november 19 73. He appears to have written it down in 19 77, which is actually 15 years after the structure. So this is objectivity, value, judgment and theory choice by thomas s coone,. In the penultimate chapter of a controversial book, first pub 15 years ago. I considered the way scientists are brought to abandon one time honored theory or paradime in favor of another. Such decision. cannot be resolved by proof. To discuss their mechanism is therefore to talk about techniques of persuasion...in a situation in which there can be