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Thomas Kuhn, the late philosopher of science from the University of California at Berkeley, expressed quite eloquently thoughts that we now share regarding periods of transition in science and academia: “The transition from a paradigm in crisis to a new one from which a new tradition of normal science can emerge is far from a cumulative process, one achieved by an articulation or extension of the old paradigm. Rather it is a reconstruction of the field from new fundamentals, a reconstruction that changes some of the field's most elementary theoretical generalizations as well as many of its paradigm methods and applications. During the transition period there will be a large but never complete overlap between the problems that can be solved by the old and by the new paradigm. But there will also be a decisive difference in the modes of solution. When the transition is complete, the profession will have changed its view of the field, its methods, and its goals.” (Kuhn, Thomas [1969] “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” in the Foundations of the Unity of Science, Volume 2, Otto Neurath, editor; University of Chicago Press, Chicago, p. 146-7. Originally published in 1939; a synopsis of this famous essay is now conveniently available on-line at http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/kuhnsyn.html).

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