Rationality, Relativism and Incommensurability

Howard Sankey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

210 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-36416-5 (ISBN)

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First published in 1997, this volume brings together a series of essays on the philosophy of science and responds to the "crisis of rationality" which evolved from the denial of both a stable methodology and a common language for science. Howard Sankey holds that important insights about scientific methodology and rationality may be gleaned from the historical approach, from which the existence of profound conceptual change in science, as well as the absence of a neutral observation language, are important findings. Half of Sankey’s essays concentrate specifically on the thesis that alternative scientific theories are incommensurable due to semantic differences between the vocabulary in which they are expressed. Several others seek to derive a new way of thinking about scientific rationality from the historical critique of the idea of a fixed scientific method. Still others demonstrate how some seemingly relativistic themes of the historical approach may be embraced in a non-relativistic manner within the context of a pluralistic and naturalistic theory of scientific methodology and rationality.

Howard Sankey

Part 1. Relativism. 1. Five Varieties of Cognitive Relativism. Part 2. Incommensurability. 2. Kuhn’s Changing Concept of Incommensurability. 3. Kuhn’s Ontological Relativism. 4. Taxonomic Incommensurability. Part 3. Untranslatability. 5. In Defence of Untranslatability. 6. Incommensurability, Translation and Understanding. Part 4. Rationality. 7. The Problem of Rational Theory Choice. 8. Judgement and Rational Theory Choice. Part 5. Naturalism. 9. Rationality, Relativism and Methodological Pluralism. 10. Normative Naturalism and the Challenge of Relativism. 11. Popper’s Metamethodological Conventionalism and the Turn to Naturalism.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2020
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 217 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	1-138-36416-9 / 1138364169
ISBN-13	978-1-138-36416-5 / 9781138364165
Zustand	Neuware