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Rethinking scientific change and theory comparison
stabilities, ruptures, incommensurabilities?
Abstract
The volume is a collection of essays devoted to the analysis of scientific change and stability. It explores the balance and tension that exists between commensurability and continuity on the one hand, and incommensurability and discontinuity on the other. And it discusses some central epistemological consequences regarding the nature of scientific progress, rationality and realism. In relation 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, and an emphasis on developments in cognitive sciences as well as on the claims of "new experimentalists".
The book is constituted of fully revised versions of papers which were originally presented at the international colloquium held at the University of Nancy, France, in June 2004. Each paper is followed by a critical commentary. The conference was a striking example of the sort of genuine dialogue that can take place between philosophers of science, historians of science and scientists who come from different traditions and endorse opposing commitments. This is one of the attractions of the volume.
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pp.71-83
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_5intra-theoretical change
pp.87-101
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_6intra-theoretical change", by Anouk Barberousse
pp.103-105
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_7correspondence at bay?
pp.109-129
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_8pp.131-141
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_9pp.153-156
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_11the case of the electron
pp.159-202
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_12pp.209-217
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_14pp.219-222
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_15pp.225-238
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_16pp.247-264
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_18pp.265-269
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_19pp.273-290
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_20an incommensurability of what? an incommensurability of a third type?
pp.299-339
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_22pp.341-347
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_23the view from inside and the view from outside
pp.381-384
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_25Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2008
Pages: 395
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science
Series volume: 255
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-4020-6274-2
ISBN (digital): 978-1-4020-6279-7
Full citation:
Soler Léna, Sankey Howard, Hoyningen-Huene Paul (2008) Rethinking scientific change and theory comparison: stabilities, ruptures, incommensurabilities?. Dordrecht, Springer.