“An awful character isn’t he?”, remarked Walter Rathenau upon seeing his likeness portrayed by Edvard Munch: “That’s what you get for having your portrait done by a great artist—you look more like yourself than you really are”. Rathenau was a German-Jewish industrialist, statesman and writer. He rose to prominence through entrepreneurship in electrical supply-chain management,Continue reading “On Talent”
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Post-Kuhn: The Age of Molecular Biology
I argue here that Kuhn’s observations of scientific practice are inadequate as a rational take on scientific nature. Kuhn’s reliance on human psychology during ‘normal science’ causes him to confuse sociology with logical development. ———- Before the writings of Thomas Kuhn, science was generally seen as the cumulative growth of human knowledge. Kuhn was opposed to this perspective; he believed that science was dividedContinue reading “Post-Kuhn: The Age of Molecular Biology”
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