Introduction. The incommensurability problem : evolution, current approaches and recent issues
Léna Soler (2004)
Philosophia Scientiae
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Léna Soler (2004)
Philosophia Scientiae
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Emiliano Trizio (2004)
Philosophia Scientiae
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The aim of the article is to establish relations between Kuhn’s general characterization of incommensurability as the impossibility to translate the taxonomies pertaining to rival scientific theories into one another and Hacking’s more specific version of incommensurability affecting competing theories that have stabilized relatively to different laboratory equipments and measurement techniques. On the basis of an analysis of the nature of scientific taxonomies that takes its inspiration...
Soazig Le Bihan (2004)
Philosophia Scientiae
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Carrier’s paper is mainly a defence of incommensurability as “a sensible notion”, on the basis of the context theory of meaning. I shall here discuss his semantic reconstruction of the notion. His argument consists in exhibiting cases where incommensurability is instantiated thanks to a symmetrical proof of untranslatability, based on a distinction between two determinants of the meaning of a concept. I shall mainly show that a logical asymmetry in the distinction hinders the argument...
Mogens Wegener (1996)
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Hanne Andersen (2004)
Philosophia Scientiae
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One important problem concerning incommensurability is to explain how theories that are incommensurable can nevertheless compete. In this paper I shall briefly review Kuhn’s account of the difference between revolutionary and non-revolutionary conceptual developments. I shall argue that his taxonomic approach and the no-overlap principle it entails does not suffice to distinguish between revolutionary and non-revolutionary developments. I shall show that his approach builds mainly on...
Reviel Netz (2005)
Revue d'histoire des mathématiques
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The note addresses briefly some reactions to a previous article “”. In particular it looks at the question: if indeed any text must depend on previous texts, what makes the dependency of commentary and commentary-like text so special to justify my emphasis on this form of writing ? A suggestion is developed, trying to define Deuteronomic texts through their precise semiotics of intertextuality: in general, it is argued, intertextuality may be paradigmatic (= allusion) or syntagmatic...
Bart Van Kerkhove, Jean Paul Van Bendegem (2005)
Philosophia Scientiae
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In current philosophical research, there is a rather one-sided focus on the foundations of proof. A full picture of mathematical practice should however additionally involve considerations about various methodological aspects. A number of these is identified, from large-scale to small-scale ones. After that, naturalism, a philosophical school concerned with scientific practice, is looked at, as far as the translations of its epistemic principles to mathematics is concerned. Finally,...
Paul Weingartner (1998-1999)
Philosophia Scientiae
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Milosav M. Marjanović (1999)
The Teaching of Mathematics
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Aleksandar Aleksandrov Dabnishki (2004)
The Teaching of Mathematics
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