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A Davidsonian Argument Against Incommensurability
, 2002 The writings of Kuhn and Feyerabend on incommensurability challenged the idea that science progresses towards the truth. Davidson famously criticized the notion of incommensurability, arguing that it is incoherent.
de Regt, H.W. +3 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops a cultural and relational model of political polarisation that integrates insights from currently disconnected streams of scholarship to conceive polarisation as a discursive and performative struggle over sacred meanings.
Werner Binder +3 more
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Incommensurability and Dynamic Conceptual Structures
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2004 One important problem concerning incommensurability is to explain how theories that are incommensurable can nevertheless compete. In this paper I shall briefly review Kuhn’s account of the difference between revolutionary and non-revolutionary conceptual
Hanne Andersen
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Some Reflections on Experimental Incommensurability [PDF]
, 2008 This is a comment on Lena Soler's 'The Incommensurability of Experimental ...
Sankey, Howard
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork‐based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings together scholarship in feminist geography and critical development studies to reposition RAs as brokers, collaborators, and knowledge translators.
Zali Fung
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Néo-pragmatisme et incommensurabilité en physique
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2004 Three interdependent levels are distinguished in Kuhn’s concept of paradigm: experimental know-how, formalism, and ontological commitment. The onlogical level is the only one which happens to be entirely and explicitly expressed in the framework of ...
Michel Bitbol
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The feeling of the incommensurable: Lawrence Grossberg on affect and incommensurability [PDF]
Cultural Studies, 2018 This essay analyzes Lawrence Grossberg's work on the concept of commensuration, and especially his suggestion that we face a generalized crisis in our mechanisms for commensurating values.
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Shaping Future Children, Sex Selection, and “Normal” Human Capacities
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT If we think that parents have an obligation to have a healthy child then we need to know what counts as healthy, when male and female children are born with very different capacities. If we give up on the idea that our obligations to use technologies of genetic selection are discharged once we try to secure the birth of a healthy child, as ...
Robert Sparrow
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Exact zero modes in interacting Majorana X- and Y-junctions
New Journal of PhysicsWe report the emergence of exact zero modes (EZMs) in junctions of two, three and four short interacting Majorana wires, equivalent to a chain with an impurity bond, Y - and X - junctions respectively.
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Incommensurability and moral value [PDF]
, 2014 © The Author(s) 2014.Some theorists believe that there is a plurality of values, and that in many circumstances these values are incommensurable, or at least incomparable. Others believe that all values are reducible to a single super-value, or that even
Reiff, Mark R.
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