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Problems of Incommensurability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
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

open access: yesEngaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2020
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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Knowing and the Known: A Philosophical and Pedagogical Critique on the Concept of ‘Powerful Knowledge’

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2023
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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Philosophy against literalism

open access: yesRivista di Estetica, 2023
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]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022
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]

open access: yes, 2012
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?

open access: yesOpen Philosophy, 2020
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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The Great Divides: Incommensurability, the Impossibility of Mixed-Methodology, and What to Do about It

open access: yes, 2020
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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