书目名称 | Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison: |
副标题 | Stabilities, Rupture |
编辑 | Léna Soler,Howard Sankey,Paul Hoyningen-Huene |
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概述 | Represents the most recent thinking on the topic of incommensurability and scientific theory change.Each individual chapter appears with a critical commentary that typically represents an opposing vie |
丛书名称 | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science |
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描述 | LÉNA SOLER This volume is a collection of essays devoted to the analysis of scientific change and stability. It represents the most recent thinking on the topic of incommensurability and scientific theory change. It explores the balance and tension that exists between commensurability and continuity (or stabilities) on the one hand, and incommen- rability and discontinuity (or ruptures) on the other. And it discusses some central epistemological consequences regarding the nature of scientific progress, rationality and realism. With respect to these topics, it investigates a number of new avenues and revisits some familiar issues, with a focus on the history and philosophy of physics, in a way that is informed by developments in cognitive sciences as well as the claims of “New experimentalists”. The essays in this book are fully revised versions of papers which were ori- nally presented at the international colloquium, “Repenser l’évaluation comparative des théories scientifiques: stabilités, ruptures, incommensurabilités?” organized by Léna Soler and Paul Hoyningen-Huene at the University of Nancy, France, in June 2004. Each paper is followed by a critical comment, which either rep |
出版日期 | Book 2008 |
关键词 | Incommensurability; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Scientific realism; Scientific revolutions; Theory change; idea; |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-8687-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-6279-7Series ISSN 0068-0346 Series E-ISSN 2214-7942 |
issn_series | 0068-0346 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 |