What all scientific revolutions are about…[is] the community's rejection of one time-honored
scientific theory in favor of another incompatible with it.… each transformed… the world …

There has been a recent surge of interest in studying radical moral change. A number of
philosophers have turned to Thomas Kuhn's model of scientific revolutions as a framework …

A comparison will be sketched between science and ethics, taken as social and historical
enterprises, via the notion of moral revaluations, viewed in a relationship of …

Some changes in human history have been characterized as revolutionary. Since the 17th
century, people have used the term 'revolution'to refer to substantial change in political …

The most fundamental thesis of this view is that science is" objective." What that means to a
traditionalist is that there are certain observable facts and regularities in the world, and it is …

Box (dr;.\X! csr CaIJ'\" cll. i\.'ew} ersl:'Y O-()()(l 120 I) 226-H·,)(J our own aspect of the human
condition. With reference to prediction, prediction by a supposedly disengaged observer is …

at0106 00cover rg.qxd Page 1 Karl Popper’s book The open society and its enemies has
become a classic text of twentieth-century liberal thought: a critique, in two volumes, of what …

In the last few decades, several philosophers have written on the topic of moral revolutions,
distinguishing them from other kinds of society-level moral change. This article surveys …

On occasion one hears debates about whether or not the history of man-or, perhaps, the
history of civilized man-shows that some sort of" progress" has taken place. It is wholly …

Human beings like to be free. Whatever the truth that confronts them, they value the choice
to accept it or not. Celebration of that freedom and repudiation of coercion lie behind refusal …