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Scientific realism and the history of science [PDF]
, 2005 The paper considers the two main challenges to scientific realism, stemming from confirmation holism and the underdetermination thesis as well as from semantic holism and the incommensurability thesis. Against the first challenge, it is argued that there
Esfeld, Michael
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Unpacking the task of synthesis when weaving knowledge systems for biodiversity assessments
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The pivot towards evidence‐based conservation since 2000 has inspired global environmental assessments to gather evidence across multiple knowledge systems, including through co‐production with Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Knowledge co‐production is highlighted as a strategy for transformative change towards a just future that ...
Maria Tengö +7 more
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O Que Há de Polêmico na Idéia Kuhniana de Incomensurabilidade?
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 1998 This paper is focused on the philosophical relevance of the Kuhnian concept of incommensurability. After the initial uproar which stemmed from the publication of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn restated his arguments on inter-paradigmatic ...
Jézio Hernani Bomfim Gutierre
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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
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Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2019 Since its emergence, ethnomethodology has been subject to a succession of disputes, prompted both by external commentaries and by internal divisions.
Martyn Hammersley
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Incommensurate standard map [PDF]
Physical Review E, 2019 We introduce and study the extension of the Chirikov standard map when the kick potential has two and three incommensurate spatial harmonics. This system is called the incommensurate standard map. At small kick amplitudes the dynamics is bounded by the isolating Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser surfaces while above a certain kick strength it becomes unbounded ...
Ermann, Leonardo, Shepelyansky, Dima L.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are unlikely to be achieved by 2030, prompting debate about what should follow. Beyond revision, there is a need to critically examine what values and assumptions have shaped how the SDGs are conceptualised and operationalised.
Gin Dupont +7 more
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A tale of two paradigms: the mutual incommensurability of ΛCDM and MOND [PDF]
, 2014 The concordance model of cosmology, ΛCDM, provides a satisfactory description of the evolution of the universe and the growth of large-scale structure.
S. McGaugh
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, 2005 This is a short introductory discussion of the idea of incommensurability as it is used in the philosophy of ...
Sankey, Howard
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Incommensurability and Vagueness [PDF]
, 2009 Two items are commensurable in value if and only if one of them is better than the other or if they are equally as good. They are incommensurable if none of these relations obtains. Given incommensurability, not even a purely ordinal measure is available
Rabinowicz, Wlodek +2 more
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