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Roads to Commensurability (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
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Roads to Commensurability (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
Series: Synthese Library, 187
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How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by
candle-light? Yes, and back again. If your heels are nimble dnd
light, You may get there by candle-light. Any philosopher who takes
more than a fleeting interest in the sciences and their development
must at some stage confront the issue of incommensurability in one
or other of its many manifes tations. For the philosopher of
science concerned with problems of conceptual change and the growth
of knowledge, matters of incommensurability are of paramount
concern. After many years of skating over, skimming through and
skirting round this issue in my studies of intertheory relations in
science, I decided to take the plunge and make the problem of
incommensurability the central and unifying theme of a book. The
present volume is the result of that decision. My interest in
problems of comparability and commensurability in science was
awakened in the formative years of my philosophi cal studies by my
teacher, Jerzy Giedymin. From him I have learnt not only to enjoy
philosophical problems but also to beware of simpleminded solutions
to them. The vibrant seminars of Paul Feyerabend held at Sussex
University in 1974 left me in no doubt that incommensurability was,
and would remain, a major topic of debate and dispute in the
philosophical study of human knowledge."
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