
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2001
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789048157099
ISBN (eBook): 9789401596800
Full citation:
Howard Sankey (ed), Incommensurability and related matters, Berlin, Springer, 2001


Incommensurability and related matters
Edited by
Howard Sankey
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science | 216Springer
2001
Abstract
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.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2001
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789048157099
ISBN (eBook): 9789401596800
Full citation:
Howard Sankey (ed), Incommensurability and related matters, Berlin, Springer, 2001