Paradigms and Barriers: How Habits of Mind Govern Scientific Beliefs, by Howard Margolis. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993
Habits of mind, like physical habits, are usually not explicitly taught or recognized are learned slowly, and are changed with difficulty, if at all. Habits of mind are efficient ways of thinking that have a strong selective value in science and in human life at l...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
1993-11-01
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| Series: | Bulletin of the History of Archaeology |
| Online Access: | http://www.archaeologybulletin.org/article/view/411 |
| Summary: | Habits of mind, like physical habits, are usually not explicitly
taught or recognized are learned slowly, and are changed with difficulty, if at all.
Habits of mind are efficient ways of thinking that have a strong selective value in
science and in human life at large. The focus of this book is upon those unfortunate,
but fairly rare, situations in science where habits of mind get in the way of
understanding the world. |
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| ISSN: | 1062-4740 2047-6930 |