Paradigms in Philosophy

Reading Kuhn I was thinking about whether what he says about paradigms (widely accepted theories) and normal science (research aimed at answering questions posed by the paradigm) is applicable to philosophy. Are there philosophical paradigms and “normal philosophy”? Have there been revolutions in philosophy?

To me, who knows very little about philosophy, it seems that philosophy consists of different schools and this is inevitable, as one school never can win over another, only gain wider, but never universal acceptance.

In Structure, Kuhn talks about the difficulties with the discussion between competing schools, as their theories make them look differently upon the same things. And accepting a theory isn’t something that is easily done. It takes time, but the transformation takes place all at once, and then there’s no turning back. But regarding philosophy, it’s my impression that philosophers can easier alternate between theories to look upon things from different angles.

I guess there must be theories that are more or less extinct, as they haven’t been as successful as others in describing the world, but it’s hard to imagine one universal theory within a subset of philosophy.