Thomas Kuhn

Why Facts Don't Change Minds- The Deeper Structure of Belief

Why Facts Don’t Change Minds: The Deeper Structure of Belief

Age of Ideology, Culture, Editors Pick, Philosophy, Thomas Kuhn

There is something almost comic about the way we argue. We gather our facts. We line them up neatly like soldiers. We march them toward the opposing view with full confidence that the sheer weight of evidence will do the work. And then nothing happens. The other person blinks, nods politely, and goes right on […]

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Thomas Kuhn Was Right- Your Worldview is a Prison You Can't See Out Of

Thomas Kuhn Was Right: Your Worldview is a Prison You Can’t See Out Of

Age of Ideology, Philosophy, Thinkers, Thomas Kuhn

We like to think we see the world as it is. We don’t. We see a version of it, filtered through invisible assumptions we inherited from our culture, our teachers, our moment in history. The philosopher Thomas Kuhn spent his career pointing out this uncomfortable truth: we’re all trapped inside paradigms—ways of seeing—that feel like

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