Karl Popper (1902-94) and Thomas Kuhn (1922-96)
One interesting intellectual tradition that contributes to conflict work is the Philosophy of Science especially as developed by Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn. I have wondered what they would have come up with if they had attempted to consense what advice they come up with on conflict handling:
- Set out to test and disprove your theory of reality
- Know that your existing paradigm may be wrong, but that you are probably going to operate within it unless and until a better theory comes along
- Crises for your theories are what drive improved understanding of reality along, so crisis is good in the long haul
- The critical first step in any conflict is the recognition that we have paradigms, rather than certain error free grip on reality, and we need to test them to get real about the conflict.
- Knowledge has a strong…
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