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Conceptual learning and local incommensurability

, 2021
In recent decades, the logical study of rational belief dynamics has played an increasingly important role in philosophy. However, the dynamics of concepts such as conceptual learning received comparatively little attention within this debate.
Strößner, Corina (Dr. phil.)
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De la spécificité de l’antisémitisme à l’unicité de la Shoah : des structures universelles de la haine ?

Socio
Is there an incommensurability of antisemitism that could explain the reactivation, in different times and places, of the mechanisms of rejection of the Jews? And does this possible incommensurability make it possible to think about the Shoah and justify
Alain Policar
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Meta-Incommensurability between Theories of Meaning: Chemical Evidence [PDF]

, 2015
Attempting to compare scientific theories requires a philosophical model of meaning. Yet different scientific theories have at times—particularly in early chemistry—pre-supposed disparate theories of meaning.
Best, Nicholas W.
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Incommensurability: The Current State of Play

, 1997
The incommensurability thesis is the thesis that the content of some alternative scientific theories is incomparable due to translation failure between the vocabulary the theories employ.
Howard Sankey Department, Howard Sankey
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The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
wiley   +1 more source

Incommensurability in Population Ethics [PDF]

, 2015
Values are incommensurable when they cannot be measured on a single cardinal scale. Many philosophers suggest that incommensurability can help us solve the problems of population ethics. I agree.
Nebel, Jacob
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Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
wiley   +1 more source

Does Incommensurability Matter? Incommensurability and Public Policy

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1998
Reasons are incommensurable when, and only when, they cannot be compared as better, worse, or equally good.' Incommensurability so conceived is relevant to choosing public policy because it is a barrier to realizing the following ideal: In forming public policy, we should select the policy supported by the best reasons.
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Comparison Excluding Commitments: Incommensurability, Adjudication, and the Unnoticed Example of Trade Disputes

, 2016
We claim that there are important cases of “incommensurability” in public policymaking, in which all relevant reasons are not always comparable on a common scale as better, worse, or equally good. Courts often fail to confront this.
Cho, Sungjoon, Warner, Richard
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Confronting the Conjecture of Cultural Incommensurability in Comparative Law

, 2014
This article presents a case against the thesis of cultural incommensurability in contemporary comparative law, in particular the one advocated by comparative law theorist Pierre Legrand, by looking to the argument of language philosopher Donald Davidson
Baaij, C.J.W., CJW Baaij
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