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Title:

Incommensurability and related matters / edited by Paul Hoyningen-Huene and Howard Sankey.

Publisher:

Kluwer Academic Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xxxiv, 325 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Science--Philosophy.
Mensuration--Philosophy

Other Authors:

Hoyningen-Huene, Paul, 1946-
Sankey, Howard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Concept formation and commensurability / Nancy J. Nersessian. Changing laws and shifting concepts : on the nature and impact of incommensurability / Martin Carrier -- Ramsification, reference fixing and incommensurability / Fred Kroon, Robert Nola -- Incommensurability and reality / Harold I. Brown -- Incommensurability and the priority of metaphysics / Michael Devitt -- Incommensurability and the normative foundations of scientific knowledge / Gerald Doppelt -- Reasons, radical change and incommensurability in science / Dudley Shapere -- Incommensurability, rationality and relativism : in science, culture and science education / Harvey Siegel -- Incommensurability and 'multicultural science' / Hugh Lacey -- Incommensurability and conceptual change during the Copernican revolution / Peter Barker -- Concept formation and commensurability / Nancy J. Nersessian.

Series:

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 216

ISBN:

9780792369899 (alk. paper)
0792369890 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46884182

LCCN:

2001029805

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)