Choose what you believe to be a paradigmatic conceptual framework in the history of science covered up to this point in the course. Your argument should refer to the specific stages and concepts Kuhn uses to describe paradigm shifts. (For example, what are some of the key anomalies of the previous paradigm? Which of these anomalies became critical anomalies? What were the specific crises these anomalies generated? How does the new paradigm deal with these?) Your argument should include the following:
• why the framework is paradigmatic (i.e., why is it so fundamental that it rose to the level of a 'worldview'?)
• how it evolved from the previous paradigm it replaced
• specific historical examples of the paradigm's evolution
