The Subject Guide also suggests that shared knowledge is not static. As our methods of inquiry change and develop so the knowledge they produce changes. These changes might be gradual but there are occasions when they might be sudden shifts in thinking. These sudden shifts could be called paradigm shifts. Examples of Paradigm shifts Shifts in the visual arts from representational Western art of the • 19th century to impressionism to cubism to abstract expressionism The paradigm shifts in music from the polyphonic music of the • Renaissance to the homophony of the Baroque or the harmonic paradigm shift between that Romanticism of the 19th century to the breakdown of tonality and the new paradigm of serialism in the early 20th century. _The paradigm shifts in economics from the classical economics of • the 19th and 20th centuries stressing the rationality of the individual to the behavioural economics of the late 20th and 21st centuries stressing the systematic irrationality of the individual. _The paradigm shift from deterministic Physics of Newton and • Galileo to the indeterminacy of Quantum Theory. _The paradigm shift from Freudian views of mental processes to the • modern cognitive perspective.
The Subject Guide also suggests that shared knowledge is not static. As our methods of inquiry change and develop so the knowledge they produce changes. These changes might be gradual but there are occasions when they might be sudden shifts in thinking. These sudden shifts could be called paradigm shifts. Examples of Paradigm shifts • Shifts in the visual arts from representational Western art of the 19th century to impressionism to cubism to abstract expressionism • The paradigm shifts in music from the polyphonic music of the Renaissance to the homophony of the Baroque or the harmonic paradigm shift between that Romanticism of the 19th century to the breakdown of tonality and the new paradigm of serialism in the early 20th century. • _The paradigm shifts in economics from the classical economics of the 19th and 20th centuries stressing the rationality of the individual to the behavioural economics of the late 20th and 21st centuries stressing the systematic irrationality of the individual. • _The paradigm shift from deterministic Physics of Newton and Galileo to the indeterminacy of Quantum Theory. • _The paradigm shift from Freudian views of mental processes to the modern cognitive perspective.
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