Rationality, relativism and incommensurability
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Rationality, relativism and incommensurability
（Avebury series in philosophy）
Ashgate, c1997
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Bibliography: p. 200-205
Includes index
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Description
A collection of essays on the issues of rationality and relativism which arise within the context of the philosophy of science. The work concerns: the nature of relativism; the problem of semantic incommensurability; and the rationality of theory choice and variation of scientific methodology.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Relativism: five varieties of cognitive relativism. Part 2 Incommensurability: Kuhn's changing concept of incommensurability (appendix - incommensurability and the indeterminacy of translation
- Kuhn's ontological relativism
- taxonomic incommensurability. Part 3 Untranslatability: in defense of untranslatability (appendix - translation and languagehood)
- incommensurability, translation and understanding. Part 4 Rationality: the problem of rational theory choice
- judgement and rational theory choice. Part 5 Naturalism: rationality, relativism and methodological pluralism
- normative naturalism and the challenge of relativism
- Popper's metamethodological conventionalism and the turn to naturalism.
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