Just thought I'd pass along a recommendation for a book:
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd edition
by Thomas S. Kuhn, 1970
(International Encylopedia of Unified Science, volume 2, number 2)
For once, somebody actually looked at the way science worked *historically*
in order to determine how science works, rather than the much more usual
arm-chair philosopher approach...
Certainly it reveals a different picture than we usually frame science
with.
According to my dad, this book (or actually large essay is more
appropriate) was voted by the U. o. Guelph philosophy department to be one
of the five most important academic works in the twentieth century. Of
course, he said he has never heard of three of the others...
ERiC