1st Edition

The Incommensurability Thesis

By Howard Sankey Copyright 1994
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

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. The book presents a critique of the thesis and examines and discusses the arguments for the theory, acknowledging and debating... Read more

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

Biography

Howard Sankey