Explanatory Translation - Beyond the Kuhnian Model of Conceptual Change (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)

In this book, Veikko Rantala makes a systematic attempt to understand cognitive characteristics of translation by bringing its logical, pragmatic and hermeneutic features together and examining a number of scientific, logical, and philosophical applications. The notion of translation investigated here is called explanatory, but it is not a translation in the standard sense of the word since it admits of conceptual change. Such translations can take various degrees of precision, and therefore they can occur in contexts of different kinds: from everyday discourse to literary texts to scientific change. The book generalizes some earlier approaches to translation, especially the one presented in David Pearce's monograph Roads to Commensurability. Rantala argues that the notion has something in common with Thomas Kuhn's earlier conception of scientific change and his views of language learning, but it can be used to go beyond Kuhn's well-known ideas and challenge his criticism concerning the import of the correspondence relation.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Synthese Library, 312
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	2002
Authors:	V. Rantala
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	321
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-6105-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > General Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
LSN:	90-481-6105-3
Barcode:	9789048161058

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