Cognitive Science and its Discontents
Cognitive Science is a recent field relative to other forms of sciences such as physics, chemistry, and medicine, taking form between 1950-1970, also known as the period of the cognitive revolution. The Kuhnian theory has been related to many scientific revolutions including those, to name a few, in optics, physics, electricity, and chemistry. But what if parallels were to be draw between Kuhn's theory and Cognitive Science? In his monograph Kuhn mentions, “it remains an open question what parts of social science have yet acquired such paradigms at all”.