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In 2017, Ilona Koszegi co-authored a pivotal critique of 'paradigm drift' in molecular biology, showing how CRISPR’s rapid adoption didn’t merely shift technique but silently eroded decades-old criteria for experimental reproducibility and theory-laden observation. Unlike Kuhn’s emphasis on revolutionary breaks or Feyerabend’s epistemological anarchism, Koszegi maps the granular, often bureaucratic, mechanisms by which consensus forms: journal review policies, grant allocation rubrics, and lab-training protocols that quietly privilege certain kinds of anomaly over others. Her Hungarian philosophical training grounds her work in Central European logical empiricism, yet she insists that scientific change is never decided in seminar rooms, it’s negotiated in ethics committees, instrument calibration logs, and undergraduate lab manuals. She treats paradigms not as monolithic worldviews but as layered, partially overlapping practices, some tacit, some codified, many untranslatable across disciplinary borders. This makes her uniquely attuned to the friction when AI tools enter wet labs: not just new methods, but new thresholds for what counts as evidence.
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- “How did the 2014 Budapest workshop on 'Post-Kuhnian Instrumentation' reshape your view of paradigm stability?”
- “Can you walk through how a single citation network shift in Nature Methods signaled a methodological rupture?”
- “What do Hungarian lab notebooks from the 1980s reveal about pre-digital paradigm maintenance?”
- “When does a 'tool-driven anomaly' become a legitimate crisis—and who gets to decide?”