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  title info:
    title: Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison
    sub title: Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities?
  name:
    name part: Soler, Léna.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sankey, Howard.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Hoyningen-Huene, Paul.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 395 p. online resource.
  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.
  table of contents: Incommensurability, As Differences in Quasi-Intuitive Cognitive Capacities: A Task for Psychology? -- Incommensurability Naturalized -- Commentary on Bird’s Paper -- Incommensurability in a Wittgensteinian Perspective: How to Make Sense of Nonsense -- Nonsense and Paradigm Change -- Commentary on “Nonsense and Paradigm Change”, by Aristides Baltas -- Intra-Theoretical Change, as a Subjective Creative Elucidation of an Objective Formerly Present Content -- From One Version to the Other: Intra-Theoretical Change -- Commentary on “From One Version to the Other: Intra-Theoretical Change”, by Anouk Barberousse -- Investigating the Continuities of Scientific Theorizing: A Task for the Bayesian? -- Modeling High-Temperature Superconductivity: Correspondence at Bay? -- An Instrumental Bayesianism Meets the History of Science -- From the Cumulativity of Physical Predictions to the Cumulativity of Physics -- Is Science Cumulative? a Physicist Viewpoint -- Commentary on “is Science Cumulative? a Physicist Viewpoint”, by Bernard d’Espagnat -- From Denotational Continuity to Entity Realism -- The Optimistic Meta-Induction and Ontological Continuity: the Case of the Electron -- Some Optimism for the Pessimist -- Is a Realist Interpretation of Quantum Physics Possible? -- Can We Consider Quantum Mechanics to Be a Description of Reality? -- Commentary on “Can We Consider Quantum Mechanics to Be a Description of Reality?”, by Herve Zwirn -- Ontological Continuity: A Policy for Model Building or an Argument in Favour of Scientific Realism? -- Reasons for Choosing Among Readings of Equipollent Theories -- Harré Needs No Realism -- A Change of Perspective: Dissolving the Incommensurability Problem in the Framework of a Theoretical Pluralism Incorporating an Instrumental Rationality -- Of Course Idealizations Are Incommensurable! -- Incommensurability from a Modelling Perspective -- What Can Philosophical Theories of Scientific Method Do? -- The Aim And Structure Of Methodological Theor…
  note: edited by Léna Soler, Howard Sankey, Paul Hoyningen-Huene.
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  classification: Q1-390
  classification: 500
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 255
  identifier: 9781402062797
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7
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