Year: 2024
Type: preprint
Abstract: Thomas Kuhn’s depiction of scientific revolution has much in common with Charles Sanders Peirce’s portrayal of abductive reasoning, with each notion outlining a template for the overthrow and reconstruction of contextual frameworks. Such upheavals are often ignited by a single individual and can be idiosyncratic and iconoclastic in nature. Accordingly, this essay explores the role autism plays in both scientific revolution and abductive reasoning, with an emphasis on the atypical perceptual characteristics that autistic individuals bring to the human population, characteristics focused intensely on the underlying structural features to be found in the human environment. The observation is then made that the community-laden practices of modern science have been systematically suppressing atypical perspectives, leading to a current paucity of scientific revolution.
Author: Griswold, Alan
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6987066937