Reconsidering Scientific Revolution: Popper, Kuhn, and the Dialectics of Scientific Progress
Gurwinder Singh Abstract This paper reexamines the concept of scientific revolution through the dialectical tension between Karl Popper’s critical rationalism and Thomas Kuhn’s socio-historical model of scientific revolutions. While Popper’s falsificationism provides a methodological criterion for scientific progress through conjecture and refutation, Kuhn’s paradigm shift model emphasizes the socio-cultural and psychological dimensions of revolutionary change. […]