Overview
- Represents the most recent thinking on the topic of incommensurability and scientific theory change
- Each individual chapter appears with a critical commentary that typically represents an opposing viewpoint
- Reflects and promotes interaction between French philosophy of science and philosophers of science from English-language philosophy of science
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 255)
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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What Can Philosophical Theories of Scientific Method Do?
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A New Kind of Incommensurability at the Level of Experimental Practices?
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Pragmatic Breakdowns: A New Kind of Scientific Revolution?
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison:
Book Subtitle: Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities?
Editors: Léna Soler, Howard Sankey, Paul Hoyningen-Huene
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6274-2Published: 06 June 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-8687-5Published: 06 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6279-7Published: 29 May 2008
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 395
Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology