Answer to Question #269768 in English for karoj salam

Question

Compare and contrast the accounts of the development of scientific knowledge provided by Thomas Kuhn and Karl popper. 

Answer 1

Kuhn focused on what science is rather than on what it should be; he had a much more realistic, hard-nosed, psychologically accurate view of science than Popper did. Popper believed that science can never end, because all knowledge is always subject to falsification or revision.

Kuhn states that during a period of 'normal science,' scientists were guided by a preexisting paradigm, a widely accepted view. When scientists observe something that does not fit the paradigm, this area of science enters a time of 'revolutionary science' in which a possible new paradigm is created.