INCOMMENSURABILITY AND RELATED MATTERS by Hoyningen-Huene, Paul ISBN 0792369890

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[edit] INCOMMENSURABILITY AND RELATED MATTERS

This title addresses the problem of the incommensurability of scientific theories. While it offers new work and directions of discussion on the topic, the book also recapitulates the history of the discussion of the topic that has taken place within the literature on incommensurability.

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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[edit] Title

INCOMMENSURABILITY AND RELATED MATTERS

[edit] Author

Hoyningen-Huene, Paul

[edit] ISBN

0792369890

[edit] Published

05/06/2001

[edit] Publisher

Kluwer Academic Publishers

[edit] Binding

hardback

[edit] Retail Price

91 (GBP)

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91 (GBP)

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