Incommensurability and Related Matters
Editors: Hoyningen-Huene, Paul, Sankey, H. (Eds.)
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Incommensurability and Related Matters draws together some of the most distinguished contributors to the critical literature on the problem of the incommensurability of scientific theories. It addresses all the various problems raised by the problem of incommensurability, such as meaning change, reference of theoretical terms, scientific realism and anti-realism, rationality of theory choice, cognitive aspects of conceptual change, as well as exploring the broader implications of incommensurability for cultural difference. While it offers new work, and new directions of discussion, on the topic of incommensurability, the book also recapitulates the history of the discussion of the topic that has taken place within the literature on incommensurability.
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Reference, (In)Commensurability and Meanings
Pages 1-63
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Changing Laws and Shifting Concepts
Pages 65-90
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Ramsification, Reference Fixing and Incommensurability
Pages 91-121
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Incommensurability and Reality
Pages 123-142
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Incommensurability and the Priority of Metaphysics
Pages 143-157
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Incommensurability and Related Matters
- Editors
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- Paul Hoyningen-Huene
- H. Sankey
- Series Title
- Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
- Series Volume
- 216
- Copyright
- 2001
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-015-9680-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-015-9680-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-7923-6989-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-5709-9
- Series ISSN
- 0068-0346
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXXIV, 338
- Topics
