Patton, Lydia (2015) Incommensurability and the Bonfire of the Meta-Theories: Response to Mizrahi. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 4 (7). pp. 51-58.
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Abstract
Scientists working within a paradigm must play by the rules of the game of that paradigm in solving problems, and that is why incommensurability arises when the rules of the game change. If we deny the thesis of the priority of paradigms, then there is no good argument for the incommensurability of theories and thus for taxonomic incommensurability, because there is no invariant way to determine the set of results provable, puzzles solvable, and propositions cogently formulable under a given paradigm.
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| Keywords: | Thomas Kuhn, paradigm shifts, taxonomic incommensurability, incommensurability, Feyerabend, paradigm, Structure, history of philosophy of science | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Medicine General Issues > Theory Change |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Lydia Patton | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2015 14:05 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2015 14:05 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 11590 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective | ||||||
| Publisher: | DIgital wing of the journal Social Epistemology, Taylor & Francis | ||||||
| Official URL: | http://social-epistemology.com/2015/07/22/incommen... | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Medicine General Issues > Theory Change |
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| Date: | 22 July 2015 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 51-58 | ||||||
| Volume: | 4 | ||||||
| Number: | 7 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11590 |
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