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PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS
卷 8, 期 2, 页码 433-451出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1537592710001180
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A common theme in the Centennial Issue of the American Political Science Review was how subfields have grown more specialized and insulated from one another. In this essay I argue that this trend has been hastened by the inappropriate incorporation of paradigm mentalities, first presented by Thomas Kuhn and later developed by Imre Lakatos. I show bow paradigm mentalities help justify rigid opposition to theoretical alternatives and limit critical insight. While paradigm mentalities may be fitting for disciplines that demonstrate Kuhn's concrete scientific achievements, they constrain the study of political science and international relations in particular. I begin with a primer that compares Kuhn and Lakatos to Karl Popper. Next, I point to harmful consequences resulting from applying paradigm mentalities to the study of international relations. Among these is the tendency to act as if realism has earned the status fa paradigm and then invoke criteria of incommensurability and subsumption to deflect criticism. I conclude by discussing how Popper's model of science provides a better platform for the study or politics by encouraging theoretical and methodological pluralism.
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