PARADIGM” comes from Latin, paradigma — to compare, to show alongside something else. A paradigm then is a metaphor. Shifting a paradigm means changing the metaphor. When old assumptions, concepts, ...

The demise of the old Aristotelian order left a void that needed filling. For centuries afterwards, philosophers sought to ...

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) indicates a paradigm shift in military research and application, echoing the revolutionary scientific framework presented by Thomas Kuhn in his ...

02 February 2023, Hesse, Marburg: A press spokeswoman points to a plasmid model at the Görzhausen I Biontech site. Photo: Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa (Photo by Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/picture ...

Before the revolution triggered by Nicolaus Copernicus, a 16th-century cleric, the Earth was the unmoving centre of the cosmos. Afterwards, it was one of a family of planets swinging through space.

How do we organize elements in a system? One way is through the lens of hierarchy, which presupposes levels, a top-down ranking of elements. Another is homoarchy, which permits one (and only one) ...

In 1848, the world was viewed through the lens of steam engines and clockwork. When Marx and Engels formulated their critique of capital, they did so within a “Newtonian” universe ~ a world of solid, ...