Introduction. The incommensurability problem : evolution, current approaches and recent issues
Léna Soler (2004)
Philosophia Scientiae
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Léna Soler (2004)
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Alexander Bird (2004)
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Kuhn’s incommensurability thesis seems to challenge scientific realism. One response to that challenge is to focus on the continuity of reference. The causal theory of reference in particular seems to offer the possibility of continuity of reference that would provide a basis for the sort of comparability between theories that the realist requires. In “Dubbing and Redubbing: The Vulnerability of Rigid Designation” Kuhn attacks the causal theory and the essentialism to which it is related....
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...
Bernulf Kanitscheider (1996)
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Nicholas White (1997)
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P. Lorenzen (1968)
Compositio Mathematica
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Irina Dobronravova (1996)
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Bart Van Kerkhove, Jean Paul Van Bendegem (2005)
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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,...
Léna Soler (2004)
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In this article I present, first, a criticism of certain aspects of the way Martin Carrier characterizes semantic incommensurability on the basis of a contextual theory of language. Subsequently I introduce some distinctions and put forward some proposals in order to pursue the same project. It will be argued that two different conceptions of the notion “conditions of applications” and, correlatively, two different meanings of the clause “preservations of the inferential relations”,...
Day, Richard H. (2004)
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
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