Choose what you believe to be a paradigmatic conceptual framework in the history of science covered up to this point in the course.
Your argument should refer to the specific stages and concepts Kuhn uses to describe paradigm shifts. It should address these specific questions:
What are some of the key anomalies of the previous paradigm?
Which of these anomalies became critical anomalies?
What were the specific crises these anomalies generated?
What was the result of these critical anomalies? Was a new paradigm developed to handle them? If not, why not? And if so, how does the new paradigm solve the critical anomalies of the previous paradigm?
Your argument should include the following:
why the framework is paradigmatic (i.e., why is it so fundamental that it rose to the level of a ‘worldview’?)
how it evolved from the previous paradigm it replaced
specific historical examples of the paradigm’s evolution
