03:46
Thomas Kuhn
Philosopher Ian Hacking talks about Thomas Kuhn's notion that science is very much a historical process--one in which breakthroughs often come at unexpected or unpredictable times, rather than at regular intervals. He also discusses Kuhn's notion of...
05:22
Feyerabend and Kuhn
Philosopher Ian Hacking talks about Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend, who were contemporaries at UC Berkeley in the late 1950's. Both were critical of the idea that there is some fixed, rational logic to science. But Feyerabend took the idea of openn...