Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison:: Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities?

by Lena Soler

Book Overview

L NA SOLER This volume is a collection of essays devoted to the analysis of scientific change and stability. It represents the most recent thinking on the topic of incommensurability and scientific theory change. It explores the balance and tension that exists between commensurability and continuity (or stabilities) on the one hand, and incommen- rability and discontinuity (or ruptures) on the other. And it discusses some central epistemological consequences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400786875
• ISBN13: 9789400786875
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"