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Incommensurability and property rights in the natural environment
Billy Christmas
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Problems of Incommensurability [PDF]
This essay discusses implications of incommensurability of values for justified decision-making, ethics and justice. Under particular conditions incommensurability of values causes what might be called ‘incomplete comparability’ of options.
Martijn Boot
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Aggregate Airs: Atmospheres of Oil and Gas in the Greater Chaco
In the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico, new fracking technologies are stirring up lands, chemicals, and relations that concentrate attention in the surround.
Sonia Grant
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It is remarkable how the popularity of the concept of ‘powerful knowledge’ has increased during the last decade in academic circles and among politicians, too.
Siebren Miedema
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This article takes the stance that knowledge requires a commitment to literalism, defined as the Humean view that an object is nothing more than a bundle of qualities.
Graham Harman
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Is the later Wittgenstein Falling into the Abyss of Relativism? an assessment through the lens of critical rationalism [PDF]
The later Wittgenstein presents all kinds of knowledge in the form of language games based on forms of life. One of the implications of his later views is that certain language games and forms of life are incommensurable.
Abdolhamid Mohammadi, Ali Paya
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Incommensurability and Evidence [PDF]
Incommensurability between successive scientific theories—the impossibility of empirical evidence dictating the choice between them—was Thomas Kuhn's most controversial proposal.
Jed Buchwald, buchwald@caltech.edu
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Where is the Great Outdoors of Meillassoux’s Speculative Materialism?
Quentin Meillassoux’s speculative materialism aims to define access to reality of the natural world apart from its giveness to sentient subjects. This world apart is designated by Meillassoux as the “Great Outdoors” which was marginalized as a topic of ...
Šatkauskas Ignas
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Kuhn’s Incommensurability Thesis: What’s the Argument?
Moti Mizrahi
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There is still significant confusion about how multimethod research can be undertaken and even if it is possible. The article makes the claims that much of the confusion is the result of a failure to distinguish between multimethod and multimethodology ...
Derek Beach, J. Kaas
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