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Re:Lessons from my PhD by dhd415 on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @12:19PM (#29726992)
In addition to ringing true, this seems largely in line with Thomas Kuhn's thesis in his Structure of Scientific Revolutions [0], a book which despite its shortcomings, should be required reading for anyone in a STEM field.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...

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Re:Lessons from my PhD by bangkoksbest on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @08:08PM (#29732278)
Kuhn's thesis doesn't have a lot space for the sociology of science to have this kind of influence. Of the classical theses of scientific progress, this comes closer to Lakatos' thesis of research programs.[0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_program

[1] Lakatos, Imre. (1978) The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Philosophical Papers (J. Worrall & G. Currie, Eds.). Cambridge University Press.

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