Concept

Normal science

Overview

a phase in Thomas Kuhn's model of scientific change in which the scientists work within a settled paradigm

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Normal science

• Thomas Kuhn

Related ideas

• Telos
• Francis Bacon
• Historicism
• Paradigm
• Scientific theory
• Hypothesis
• Heliocentrism
• Paradigm shift
• Thomas Kuhn
• Science
• Social science
• Scientist
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Scientific community
• Philosophy of science
• Imre Lakatos
• Pliny the Elder
• Relativism
• Irrationalism
• Fact
• Phenomenon
• Non-science

Opposing perspectives

• Religious conversion
• World disclosure

Place in the tradition

Part of Philosophy of science.

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