Notes on Kuhn's "Logic of Discover or Psychology of Research" (Lakatos/Musgrave, 10):
"The state of astronomy was a scandal in the early 16th century. most astronomers nevertheless felt that normal adjustments of a basically Potlemaic model would set the situation right. In this sense the theory had not failed a test. But a few astronomers, Copernicus among them, felt that the difficulties must lie in the Ptolemaic approach itself rather than in the particular version of the Ptolemaic theory so far developed. The situation is typical. With or without tests, a puzzle-solving tradition can prepare the way for its own displacement."
So the question is whether cognition is in for a Maturana-Flores-Winograd hero narrative-style paradigm shift? (No implications that anyone is trying to be a hero. More a statement about narratives of scientific progress.)
I also would love to see a fleshed out example of Stella lost her puzzle-solving tradition. A newly proposed paradigm starts gathering steam and followers and manages to explain some socially prioritized anomaly better than any old-gestalt variant?
