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Larry Laudan, a critique of Kuhn, challenged this synchronismKuhnian idea wholesale change.[[CiteRef::Andersen and Hepburn (2018)]] For him, research is conducted within the historical tradition of its given domain.[[CiteRef::Laudan (1977a)]] Traditions are comprised of general assumptions about entities and processes. Problem solving, usually concerning anomalies, drives scientific change. Contra Unlike Kuhn, Laudan holds that anomalies can be addressed by methodological or ontological changes instead of theory modifications.[[CiteRef::Andersen and Hepburn (2018)]]
Synchronism vs. Asynchronism of Method Employment (view source)
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Serious anomalies eventually give way to a crisis in the paradigm, which calls for the modification or a revolutionary abandonment of the paradigm. Anomalies that strike at the foundation of the paradigm are often solved by new theories which, if accepted, culminate in a new consensus within the scientific community. This is known as a revolution. The new consensus among the community is not a cumulative progression from the old consensus; rather, the two paradigms are incommensurable with respect to the set of problems, the approaches to those problems, conceptual changes, and the world of the community’s research.
Kuhn’s notion of incommensurability first tabled the discussion of the synchronism or asynchronism of method employment. According to Thomas Nickles, the incommensurability of Kuhnian revolutions involves a wholesale change in goals as well as methodological standards and values.[[CiteRef::Nickles (2017b)]] Thus, in Kuhn’s system method employment necessarily depends upon theory acceptance, from which it follows that methods and theories change synchronously.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|ppp. 151]]
Contrary to Kuhn, for whom “change is simultaneous rather than sequential”,[[CiteRef::Laudan (1984a)|ppp. 69]] Laudan regards method employment as separable from theory acceptance. It is possible to In his view, methodological dicta can change methodologies, which Laudan treats as methods, without accepting any new theoriesbeing accepted.[[CiteRef::Laudan (1984a)|ppp. 74]] A paradigm shift is not necessary for methods to change.[[CiteRef::Laudan (1984a)|ppp. 81]] Consequently, methods and theory theories can change can be asynchronous.
|Current View=[[Mirka Loiselle]] challenged the asynchronism of method employment theorem during the seminar of 2016. According to Mirka, the employment of a method is simultaneous to the acceptance of a proposition stating that the method is effective. Whether or not this poses a challenge to the theorem remains an open question.
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