The problem with Kuhn is that his central thesis of incommensurability as it is commonly interpreted is false. Classical mechanics arises as a specific limit of

The problem with Kuhn is that his central thesis of incommensurability as it is commonly interpreted is false. Classical mechanics arises as a specific limit of quantum mechanics. Galilean invariance arises as a specific limit of special relativity. Ray optics arises as a specific limit of wave optics. Newtonian gravity arises as a specific limit of general relativity. In fact, many of these theories were explicitly developed with the constraint that they reproduce the old theory in a certain limit, see e.g. Bohrs correspondence principle. Kuhn knows this, but many of his fans don't. That is partly the fault of the biases his fans, but partly the fault of Kuhn for intentionally deemphasising this most critical aspect of scientific revolutions. What's special about scientific revolutions in physics is not the supposed "incommensurability", but the mathematically precise way in which the old theories survive as limiting cases of the new theories. That doesn't happen for other paradigm shifts. The god-is-punishing-us-for-our-sins theory of disease did not survive as a specific limit of the germ theory of disease. That physics is not like that is what's surprising! Kuhn has his story exactly backwards. If you want to understand those scientific revolutions, don't read Kuhn; get a physics bachelor.