Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison
Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities?, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 255, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 255
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06.06.2008, 1. Auflage 2008
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Inhaltsangabe1. Incommensurability, as Differences in Quasi-Intuitive Cognitive Capacities: a task for psychology? 2. Incommensurability in a Wittgensteinian Perspective: How to Make Sense of Nonsense? 3. Intra-Theoretical Change, as a Subjective Creative Elucidation of an Objective Formerly Present Content. 4. Investigating the Continuities of Scientific Theorizing: A Task for the Bayesian? 5. From the Cumulativity of Physical Predictions to the Cumulativity of Physics. 6. From Denotational continuity to Entity Realism. 7. Is a Realist Interpretation of Quantum Physics Possible? 8. Ontological Continuity: A Policy for Model Building or an Argument in Favour of Scientific Realism? 9. A Change of Perspective: Dissolving the Incommensurability Problem in the Framework of a Theoretical Pluralism Incorporating an Instrumental Rationality. 10. What Can Philosophical Theories of Scientific Method Do? 11. A New Kind of Incommensurability at the Level of Experimental Practices? 12. Pragmatic Breakdowns: A New Kind of Scientific Revolution?