Dr. Otter gave an interesting discussion on paradigm shifts with a focus on themes from Thomas Kuhn’s book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn’s book is a particularly challenging book to understand as it brings to light a new vocabulary with complex ideas. Dr. Otter gave valuable insight on these complex ideas that Kuhn lays out. One of the main points that Dr. Otter explained was the idea of a paradigm shift and what it is described as in Kuhn’s book. Dr. Otter also went on to explain how Kuhn describes the evolution of science as a nonlinear path, but rather one with high and lows in scientific discovery and achievement. I thought it was interesting how Dr. Otter was able to bring down Kuhn’s ideas to a more understandable level. I found it difficult to comprehend everything that Kuhn had written. However, I was able to understand the general ideas that Kuhn was getting at. It was extremely helpful though for Dr. Otter to come in, as he was able to fill in some of the gaps to the reading that I had when I first read Kuhn’s first couple of chapters.