AMA | September 2024

5033.013 - 5055.672 Sean Carroll

defend himself from charges of that he was a relativist, that he thought that, you know, Kuhn and the structure of scientific revolutions argue that there are non-epistemic factors that go into scientists' preference for one theory or another. And people read this as saying that it was arbitrary, and he later wrote that, no, it is not arbitrary, but it's just not an algorithm, right?