Identifying paradigm shifts
Use the readings taken from Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything” to complete the chart below.
Sources of knowledge: beliefs, faith, acquaintance, practice, introspection, empathy, instinct, ethics, authority, logic, empirical, memory
What was the
What logical
What events or
What
Who supported
What sources of
What was the
original
fallacies do you
discoveries
explanations did
the new ideas,
knowledge were
new paradigm
paradigm? Cite a
consider this an
occurred to cause those who
and what were
challenged? How that was created?
passage that is
example of?
the old paradigm opposed the new different ways
so?
What do you find
evidence of this.
Explain how.
to shift? Cite
ideas use to
people tried to
What ways of
interesting about
examples of this.
support their own explain the new
knowing were
some of the
understanding of discoveries?
affected?
people involved
things? Cite
Describe some of in the shift? Were
examples. Logical
the shifts in
they aware of the
fallacies here?
understanding.
scale of the shifts?