Rethinking scientific change and theory comparison

Lena Soler, Howard Sankey, Paul Hoyningen-Huene (eds)

Springer - Berlin

2008

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.

Scientific realism and the rationality of science

Howard Sankey

Ashgate - Aldershot

2008

Incommensurability and related matters

Howard Sankey (ed)

Springer - Berlin

2001

Incommensurability and Related Matters draws together some of the most distinguished contributors to the critical literature on the problem of the incommensurability of scientific theories. It addresses all the various problems raised by the problem of incommensurability, such as meaning change, reference of theoretical terms, scientific realism and anti-realism, rationality of theory choice, cognitive aspects of conceptual change, as well as exploring the broader implications of incommensurability for cultural difference.