My name is Kati Kish Bar-On, and I am a Philosophy Ph.D. student at Tel-Aviv University (expected 2022). I find people’s attachment and degree of commitment to social norms fascinating, and my work examines how people’s social identity and group identity affect their norm following attitudes and their feelings of obligation towards certain norms. I am also interested in the role norms (in the broader sense) play during periods of scientific framework or paradigm transitions. Scientific disciplines are cultures of their own: they have their norms, values, and normative frameworks within which practitioners operate. How does a mathematician who is firmly committed to certain theories and ways to do mathematics eventually accepts concepts that do not coincide with his prevailing commitments? My research project engages with such questions by analyzing an intriguing unsuccessful 20th-century attempt to revolutionize mathematics.