Thomas Kuhn — the one philosopher of science that even ignorami like me have heard of — said that during periods of ‘normal science’, researchers only take on problems that they know they can solve. ‘Paradigm’ is an overused word, but it’s a measure of the paradigm-shifting nature of the Origin that in much of it, such as in chapter 9 ‘On the imperfection of the geological record’, Darwin flies blind.
Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post…

Original post by John Whitfield none@example.com