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Roads to Commensurability

Pearce D.
Innbundet / 1987 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9789027724144
Publisert
1987-06-30
Utgiver
Springer
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, UP, P, 05, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Forfatter
Pearce D.

Roads to Commensurability

Pearce D.
Innbundet / 1987 / Engelsk
Pearce D.
Innbundet / 1987 / Engelsk
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<strong>`</strong> .. I do recommned the reviewed book as excellent and rewarding reading. It is written vividly, lucidly and competently. <strong>'</strong><br /> <strong> Studia Logica </strong>

How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again. If your heels are nimble dnd light, You may get there by candle-light. Any philosopher who takes more than a fleeting interest in the sciences and their development must at some stage confront the issue of incommensurability in one or other of its many manifes­ tations. For the philosopher of science concerned with problems of conceptual change and the growth of knowledge, matters of incommensurability are of paramount concern. After many years of skating over, skimming through and skirting round this issue in my studies of intertheory relations in science, I decided to take the plunge and make the problem of incommensurability the central and unifying theme of a book. The present volume is the result of that decision. My interest in problems of comparability and commensurability in science was awakened in the formative years of my philosophi­ cal studies by my teacher, Jerzy Giedymin. From him I have learnt not only to enjoy philosophical problems but also to beware of simpleminded solutions to them. The vibrant seminars of Paul Feyerabend held at Sussex University in 1974 left me in no doubt that incommensurability was, and would remain, a major topic of debate and dispute in the philosophical study of human knowledge.
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After many years of skating over, skimming through and skirting round this issue in my studies of intertheory relations in science, I decided to take the plunge and make the problem of incommensurability the central and unifying theme of a book.
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1. Stegmüller on Kuhn and Incommensurability.- 1. The Structuralist View of Theories.- 2. An Analysis of the Structuralist Concept of Reduction.- 3. Further Consequences.- 2. Structuralist Criteria of Commensurability.- 1. Balzer on Incommensurability.- 2. A Response.- 3. Adequacy of Translation and More on Uniform Reduction.- 4. The Structuralist Criteria Rejected.- 3. Research Traditions, Incommensurability and Scientific Progress.- 1. Problem-Solving Models of Science.- 2. Laudan on Incommensurability.- 3. Laudan’s Second Thesis.- 4. Progress and the Problem-Solving Model.- 4. The Logic of Reducibility.- 1. Types of Reduction.- 2. Generalisations.- 3. Reconstructions.- 4. Further Properties.- 5. Criteria of Adequacy: Some Fallacies Exposed.- 5. Theory Dynamics, Continuity and Problem-Solving.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Aspects of Problem-Solving.- 3. Research Traditions and Theory Ensembles.- 4. Theory Change and Relations between Ensembles.- 5. Theory Change and Continuity.- 6. Ensembles and the Problem-Solving Model of Progress.- 6. Meaning Change and Translatability.- 1. Meaning and Conceptual Change.- 2. Stability of Reference.- 3. Indeterminacy of Reference.- 4. Kuhn and Feyerabend against Translation.- 7. Two Routes to Commensurability.- 1. Comparability, Rationality, Translatability.- 2. Ontology and Conceptual Frameworks.- 3. The Translation of CM into RM.- 4. Explanation and Meaning.- 5. Scientific Change and Rationality: Some Tentative Conclusions.- Notes.- Name Index.
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<strong>`</strong> .. I do recommned the reviewed book as excellent and rewarding reading. It is written vividly, lucidly and competently. <strong>'</strong><br /> <strong> Studia Logica </strong>

How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again. If your heels are nimble dnd light, You may get there by candle-light. Any philosopher who takes more than a fleeting interest in the sciences and their development must at some stage confront the issue of incommensurability in one or other of its many manifes­ tations. For the philosopher of science concerned with problems of conceptual change and the growth of knowledge, matters of incommensurability are of paramount concern. After many years of skating over, skimming through and skirting round this issue in my studies of intertheory relations in science, I decided to take the plunge and make the problem of incommensurability the central and unifying theme of a book. The present volume is the result of that decision. My interest in problems of comparability and commensurability in science was awakened in the formative years of my philosophi­ cal studies by my teacher, Jerzy Giedymin. From him I have learnt not only to enjoy philosophical problems but also to beware of simpleminded solutions to them. The vibrant seminars of Paul Feyerabend held at Sussex University in 1974 left me in no doubt that incommensurability was, and would remain, a major topic of debate and dispute in the philosophical study of human knowledge.
Les mer
After many years of skating over, skimming through and skirting round this issue in my studies of intertheory relations in science, I decided to take the plunge and make the problem of incommensurability the central and unifying theme of a book.
Les mer
1. Stegmüller on Kuhn and Incommensurability.- 1. The Structuralist View of Theories.- 2. An Analysis of the Structuralist Concept of Reduction.- 3. Further Consequences.- 2. Structuralist Criteria of Commensurability.- 1. Balzer on Incommensurability.- 2. A Response.- 3. Adequacy of Translation and More on Uniform Reduction.- 4. The Structuralist Criteria Rejected.- 3. Research Traditions, Incommensurability and Scientific Progress.- 1. Problem-Solving Models of Science.- 2. Laudan on Incommensurability.- 3. Laudan’s Second Thesis.- 4. Progress and the Problem-Solving Model.- 4. The Logic of Reducibility.- 1. Types of Reduction.- 2. Generalisations.- 3. Reconstructions.- 4. Further Properties.- 5. Criteria of Adequacy: Some Fallacies Exposed.- 5. Theory Dynamics, Continuity and Problem-Solving.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Aspects of Problem-Solving.- 3. Research Traditions and Theory Ensembles.- 4. Theory Change and Relations between Ensembles.- 5. Theory Change and Continuity.- 6. Ensembles and the Problem-Solving Model of Progress.- 6. Meaning Change and Translatability.- 1. Meaning and Conceptual Change.- 2. Stability of Reference.- 3. Indeterminacy of Reference.- 4. Kuhn and Feyerabend against Translation.- 7. Two Routes to Commensurability.- 1. Comparability, Rationality, Translatability.- 2. Ontology and Conceptual Frameworks.- 3. The Translation of CM into RM.- 4. Explanation and Meaning.- 5. Scientific Change and Rationality: Some Tentative Conclusions.- Notes.- Name Index.
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GPSR Compliance The European Union's (EU) General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) is a set of rules that requires consumer products to be safe and our obligations to ensure this. If you have any concerns about our products you can contact us on ProductSafety@springernature.com. In case Publisher is established outside the EU, the EU authorized representative is: Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH Europaplatz 3 69115 Heidelberg, Germany ProductSafety@springernature.com
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9789027724144
Publisert
1987-06-30
Utgiver
Springer
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Pearce D.

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