Science and Religion

Assignment for Oct-27

Paper 3, Round 0


Finding a topic

Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions inspired a great deal of argument, rejection, speculation, expansion, and other types of responses presented in articles and books. If you search through this material, you will find some interesting responses to Kuhn's claims about how science works and its implications.

For this paper, you must find something that builds upon or responds to Kuhn's work. You must then create your own question and then answer it. That is, you should create your own topic basic on the response work that you find. You might evaluate the response, or compare two different responses, or reinterpret some essential part of Kuhn given new information from the response. The possibilities are broad, and should be guided by whatever you find compelling the writings that you uncover.


Writing an introductory paragraph

For the 0th stage of this assignment, you must write a title and introductory paragraph for this assignment. In doing so, you must make clear what the topic of your paper is and how you intend to address it.

Note that your topic may vary later if needed. However, this introductory paragraph (and title) will be graded, so it be the result of a substantial investigation into other writings.


Submitting your work

You must upload your paper as a PDF. Use this assignment's submission web page.


Your paper must be submitted by Monday, October-27, at 11:59 pm


Scott F. H. Kaplan
Last modified: Tue Oct 21 23:57:25 EDT 2008