The Incommensurability Thesis

ISBN-13: 9780367261894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 238 str.

Howard Sankey

Opis

Originally published in 1994, The Incommensurability Thesis is a critical study of the Incommensurability Thesis of Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend. The book examines the theory that different scientific theories may be incommensurable because of conceptual variance.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  1. Incommensurability  2. Reference and Theory Comparison  3. Translation Failure Between Theories  4. In Defence of Untranslatability  5. Referential Discontinuity  6. Against the Idealist Interpretation  7. Against Constructivism  Conclusion  Bibliography

O autorze

Howard Sankey