Kuhn, Thomas (1922-1996) American Historian of Science, Philosopher and Linguist. Kuhn was amongst the first to explore the history of science for any non-observational factors that might explain theory choice, as well as

is entirely in line with Thomas Kuhn 's stages in a scientific revolution ). Once that confidence was undermined, the next step was to develop a positive scientific research program as an alternative to Darwinism and more generally to

(2.10-2.13) 2.10 Thomas Kuhn ’s revolutionary account of scientific theory change - 2.11 Feyerabendian anarchism - 2.12 Imre Lakatos , and Nancey Murphy ’s theological appropriation of Lakatos - 2.13 Rescher’s