Zenker, Frank and Gärdenfors, Peter (2014) Communication, Rationality, and Conceptual Changes in Scientific Theories. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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This article outlines how conceptual spaces theory applies to modeling changes of scientific frameworks when these are treated as spatial structures rather than as linguistic entities. The theory is briefly introduced and five types of changes are presented. It is then contrasted with Michael Friedman’s neo-Kantian account that seeks to render Kuhn’s “paradigm shift” as a communicatively rational historical event of conceptual development in the sciences. Like Friedman, we refer to the transition from Newtonian to relativistic mechanics as an example of “deep conceptual change.” But we take the communicative rationality of radical conceptual change to be available prior to the philosophical meta-paradigms that Friedman deems indispensable for this purpose.
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| Keywords: | a priori, conceptual spaces, communication, communicative rationality, incommensurability, Michael Friedman, neo-Kantianism, scientific revolution, theory change, Thomas Kuhn | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science Specific Sciences > Physics General Issues > Rhetoric of Science General Issues > Structure of Theories General Issues > Theory Change |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Frank Zenker | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2014 15:24 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 27 Feb 2014 15:24 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 10367 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science Specific Sciences > Physics General Issues > Rhetoric of Science General Issues > Structure of Theories General Issues > Theory Change |
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| Date: | 2014 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10367 |
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