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Mechanism of Method Employment (view source)
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|Prehistory=A number of philosophers of science addressed the question of method employment. [[Thomas Kuhn]], [[Paul Feyerabend]], [[Dudley Shapere]], [[Larry Laudan]], and [[Ernan McMullin]] all suggested that our beliefs about the world shape our methods of theory evaluation.
[[Thomas Kuhn]] can be credited by articulating this idea first in his [[Kuhn (1962)|''Structure'']] as part of his conception of paradigm shifts.[[CiteRef::Kuhn (1962)]]
[[Dudley Shapere]] great developed the idea of beliefs affecting methods of theory evaluation in his [[Shapere (1980)|''The Character of Scientific Change'']], where he argued that the criteria scientists employ in theory assessment are not transcendent to science but are an integral part of it.[[CiteRef::Shapere (1980)]]
Similarly, in his [[Laudan (1984)|''Science and Values'']], [[Larry Laudan]] argued that the discovery of previously unaccounted effects (such as placebo effect or experimenter's bias) resulted in the formulation of new methods of drug testing.[[CiteRef::Laudan (1984)|pp. 38-39]]
