Reading group: Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)

Thomas Kuhn's Structure is probably the most cited philosophy of science book ever. It describes science as moving through periods of "normal science" within a paradigm, the accumulation of anomalies, crisis, and revolution, where one paradigm replaces another. Kuhn argued that successive paradigms can be "incommensurable": not straightforwardly comparable by a neutral standard.

Kuhn added a postscript in 1969, responding to critics and clarifying the concept of paradigm, which the original uses in many different senses.

Let's read it over three weeks: chapters 1–5 (normal science), 6–9 (anomaly, crisis, revolution), 10–13 plus the postscript. As a physics teacher, I want to know if Kuhn's history is accurate and whether his view leaves room for scientific progress.