First published in 1997, this volume brings together a series of
essays on the philosophy of science and responds to the "crisis of
rationality" which evolved from the denial of both a stable
methodology and a common language for science. Howard Sankey holds
that important insights about scientific methodology and
rationality may be gleaned from the historical approach, from which
the existence of profound conceptual change in science, as well as
the absence of a neutral observation language, are important
findings. Half of Sankey's essays concentrate specifically on the
thesis that alternative scientific theories are incommensurable due
to semantic differences between the vocabulary in which they are
expressed. Several others seek to derive a new way of thinking
about scientific rationality from the historical critique of the
idea of a fixed scientific method. Still others demonstrate how
some seemingly relativistic themes of the historical approach may
be embraced in a non-relativistic manner within the context of a
pluralistic and naturalistic theory of scientific methodology and
rationality.
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