Popper and Kuhn on Theory change — John Worrall / Serious Science

Professor of Philosophy of Science John Worrall on the scientific revolutions, falsifiability and what are the main features of a scientific hypothesis.

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'What Kuhn pointed out was that the scientists don't operate the way that you would expect that they do according to Popper, looking for refutations, and once they get a refutation (that is, some observational result which clashes with their theories), they give up the theory. Kuhn talked about scientists treating apparently negative results as anomalies rather than refutation. '

John Worrall, Professor of Philosophy of Science, the London School of Economics and Political Science

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