Hi guys,
I’ve been having trouble remembering a book or its author. I’ve never actually read it, but remember it mentioned somewhere. The book concerned science and how the public often thought about new ideas as necessarily better than the old ones because of confusion as to the methodology involved, or something of the sort.
Any help suggesting titles please, I would probably recognize it.
Thanks,
Fred
No idea, sounds like your referring to some kind of whig theory.
Are you talking about The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn in which he discusses how science is usually postulated on an untested paradigm and once this paradigm reaches a crisis point it then comes into conflict with scientific research therefore a new untested paradigm is introduced?
I don’t think so, but it sure sounds like an interesting read. I’ll put it on my to-do list, thanks!
Oh my, do I feel stupid. Yeh, that’s the one. It took reading the introduction to Rothbard’s History of Economic Thought to realise that you’re exactly right.
Not a problem. Glad to help.