ABSTRACT
The second of the series of five seminars focuses on Thomas Kuhn’s Postscript to the Second Edition of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Garfinkel devotes a substantial portion of the seminar to reading long passages from the Postscript, while also making admiring remarks about the way Kuhn points to differences in the expression of the law of free fall when used for describing instantiations of that law to describe planetary orbits, and in connection with demonstrations with the pendulum and inclined plane, among other instruments. Garfinkel also returns to topis ge introduced in the first seminar in the series, such as the differences between the social and “discovering” sciences, and his praxiological reading of gestalt themes.
