Science

Third thing that I never thought about were Paradigms. Particularly, how Kuhn (1970) highlights how Paradigms play a double role in Science. In part, they help to keep us far from distracting themes and on choosing the right research topics. But, the counterpart of them is that in Kuhn’s opinion they can make research so much predictable. For this he proposes paradigm shifts that can replace old habits according to the context needs....

First week’s content on Research Methods in Computer Science, raised on me many questions that I have never thought about before. Firstly, I never thought about the nature of Science. Maybe this question can take a life to answer. Wikipedia presents Science as knowledge organized and testable predictions, about the universe. It is a good starting point and it takes me to the second thing that I never really thought about....