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	Commensurability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A time measured in weeks and a time measured in minutes are commensurable because a week is a constant number of minutes (10080), so that one can convert between the two units by multiplying or dividing by 10080.
		For the commensurability of scientific theories, see commensurability (philosophy of science).
		For the concept of commensurability in mathematics, see commensurability (mathematics).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Incommensurability (177 words)

	Commensurability (philosophy of science) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the philosophy of science, two theories are said to be incommensurable if there is no common theoretical language that can be used to compare them.
		This problem cannot be resolved by using a neutral language for communication, since the difference occurs prior to the application of language.
		The philosophy of Paul Feyerabend was also based on the idea of incommensurability to a large extent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Commensurability_(philosophy_of_science) (869 words)

	Thomas Kuhn
		A particularly significant instance of this was Kuhn's insistence on the importance of the history of science for philosophy of science.
		In normal science the key theories, instruments, values and metaphysical assumptions that comprise the disciplinary matrix are kept fixed, permitting the cumulative generation of puzzle-solutions, whereas in a scientific revolution the disciplinary matrix undergoes revision, in order to permit the solution of the more serious anomalous puzzles that disturbed the preceding period of normal science.
		Turning to the philosophy of science, it was clear by the end of the 1980s that the centreground was now occupied by a new realism, one that took on board lessons from general philosophy of language and epistemology, in particular referentialist semantics and a belief in the possibility of objective knowledge and justification.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/thomas-kuhn (10597 words)

	On Post-Modernist Philosophy of Science
		Science had no difficulty determining the size of the Earth and the distances to the planets and stars before relativity, so saying there would be no possibility of making measurements without relativity is simple gibberish.
		Science, and rationalism in general, have been attacked on a number of fronts as means of supporting the hegemony of white male Europeans or justifying colonialism, war, economic exploitation, sexism, environmental injustice.
		If, as sociologists and philosophers of science claim to believe, it is possible to "speak truly," then that belief needs to be implicit in everything they do and write, and central to all their research.
	www.uwgb.edu /dutchs/PSEUDOSC/Postmod.htm (9076 words)

	Chronological Bibliography
		Science and the Human Imagination: Aspects of the History and Logic of Physical Science, SCM Press: London 1954, 171 pp.
		Comment on Kuhn’s ‘Commensurability, comparability, communicability’ in PSA 1982: Proceedings of the 1982 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, P. Asquith and T. Nickels (eds), Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing (Mich.), 1983, pp.
		'Vico’s Heroic Metaphor' in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Essays in Honour of Gerd Buchdahl, R. Woolhouse (ed.), Kluwer, Dordrecht and Boston, pp.
	digilander.libero.it /collodel/maryhesse/bibchr.htm (2668 words)

	DARWINISM: SCIENCE OR PHILOSOPHY? Chapter 11
		They draw a distinction between "operations science," the "second causes" of Hodge, and "origins science." Their point is that hypotheses about singular events, such as the origin of the universe or the origin of life, cannot be falsified; this, they believe opens the door to inclusion of the supernatural as a "scientific" explanation.
		It can be claimed that the distinction between science and scientism, or evolution and evolutionism, may be valid but nonetheless unimportant, insofar as the effect of science or evolution is to promote the agendas of scientism or evolutionism.
		He accuses science of being unfair in not admitting into its own camp a philosophical perspective radically different from its own, and then using that refusal to cement its social hegemony.
	www.leaderu.com /orgs/fte/darwinism/chapter11.html (3464 words)

	KUHN:
		That history of science was a stalking horse for philosophy of science in Kuhn’s thought does not explain, however, why the implications of what is surely an otherwise reasonably innocuous programme for work on the history of science should carry such revisionary implications for philosophy of science.
		This misrepresentation is significant for the things which matter in philosophy of science, to wit, the status of science as knowledge and its standing as the very paradigm of rationality in (or indeed as the basis for the very rationality of) our general culture.
		Sciences often begin with a phase in which they are like the contemporary social sciences, in which there is no fundamental agreement, when people keep on trying to rebuild the science all over again, tearing up existing views of its nature and purpose, and trying to make a completely fresh start with the whole thing.
	www.uea.ac.uk /~j339/Kuhntogo.htm (18501 words)

	INCOMMENSURABILITY AND CREATIVE ABDUCTION IN SCIENCE
		The analysis of conceptual change can overcome the negative issues that come from the reductionist theory of meaning, and illustrate the various grades of commensurability that can be found when dealing with the roles of model-based abduction in science.
		Gooding (see [2]) refers to this kind of concrete manipulative reasoning when he illustrates the role in science of the so-called "construals" that embody tacit inferences in procedures that are often apparatus and machine based.
		The hypothetical character of construals is clear: they are provisional creative organizations of experience: some of them become in their turn hypothetical "interpretations" of experience, that is more theory-oriented, their reference is gradually stabilized in terms of established observational practices.
	www.unipv.it /webphilos_lab/courses/papers/incommensurability.htm (1700 words)

	Nancy Tuana
		Nancy Tuana is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon.
		My teaching focus in philosophy of science has moved in the direction of science studies and is linked to my participation in the environmental studies program.
		In addition to philosophy courses in which I trace the movement of theorizing in philosophy of science in the US from logical positivism to the recent embrace of socialized and naturalized approaches to the study of science, I teach "Science, Technology, and Gender" for Women's Studies, and "Science Studies and the Environment" for Environmental Studies.
	www.cddc.vt.edu /feminism/Tuana.html (1105 words)

	Philosophy Forum -> Falsifiability
		IMO, science is not so much about what kind of hypothesis you work with, but about how you are testing for the validity of the hypothesis and for the validity of the test.
		In fact, predictive causality is almost totally prohibited in the sciences, since any particular theory will only be predictive under the conditions in which the theory is valid; which might not be the case during the next observation.
		Science is not based on repeatable events, it is based on repeatable experiences.
	forum.darwinawards.com /index.php?showtopic=4117 (7353 words)

	Philosophy Forum > Falsifiability
		Science is the process of formulating (and, I should add, testing) falsifiable theories based on repeatable experimentation and observation.
		His consternation is understandable, especially when so few teachers of the sciences understand this distinction themselves and when they continue to inculcate their own confusion in their students.
		The metaphysical assertions that are of use to science define experience in terms of a subject relating to an external, independent object that has consistent rules of behavior.
	forum.darwinawards.com /lofiversion/index.php/t4117.html (15569 words)

	Contents
		Lambert, K. and Brittain, G. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Ridgeview: Atascadero, 3rd edn.
		Pap, A. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode.
		Introduction to Philosophy of Science, Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice-Hall.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~whns/ReadingLists/BIBLIOGRAPHY.htm (2120 words)

	Philosophy at Oxford
		Philosophy of Physics and Philosophy of Science Offprints
		Students of the sub-faculty of philosophy are also permitted to make a copy for their personal use.
		MAU 1 The Exclusion Principle and its Philosophical Importance (Philosophy of Science v.
	www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /guides/philosophy/Science.htm (2871 words)

	Neil Tennant
		We aim to become conversant with all the major concepts and controversies of mainstream discussion in the 'general' philosophy of science (as opposed to its more specialized areas, such as the philosophy of quantum physics).
		We shall be covering topics drawn from the following list: The structure of scientific theories; theory-ladenness of observational evidence; the Quine-Duhem problem; commensurability of competing scientific theories; simplicity; rationality of scientific change; the criterion of cognitive significance; the nature of scientific paradigms; conceptual change in science.
		A useful on-line bibliography in philosophy of science
	people.cohums.ohio-state.edu /tennant9/655.html (414 words)

	Peter Schroeder-Heister / Publikationen
		Abstracts of the 7th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (Salzburg 1983), Vol.
		In: Proceedings of the 8th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (Montreal 1993), Los Alamitos 1993, 222-232.
		Abstracts of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, Poland (August 1999), Cracow: 1999, p.
	www-ls.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de /psh/forschung/pub.php (1572 words)

	Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The book concludes with a discussion of new thinking in the history and philosophy of science, which suggests fresh perspectives on the classical opposition between science and magic.
		Magic, science and religion in Western thought: anthropology's intellectual legacy; 2.
		Rationality, relativism, the translation, and commensurability of cultures; 7.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521376319 (216 words)

	Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, London, 1965, volume 4, pages 231-278, Cambridge, 1970.
		In Peter D. Asquith and Thomas Nickles, editors, PSA 1982: Proceedings of the 1982 biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Assocation, volume 2, pages 669-688, East Lansing, MI, 1983.
		In Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, London, 1965, volume 4, pages 51-58, Cambridge, 1970.
	www.cs.uleth.ca /~seldin/Abstract/node1.html (117 words)

	The Theory of Everything (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Losee,J. A Historical Introduction to the Philosophyof Science.
		Newton-Smith, W. A Companion to the Philosophy of Science.
		Rudolph,E. and Stamatescu, I.-O.(eds) Philosophy, Mathematics and Modern Physics.
	www.mmsysgrp.com /QIS/phisci.htm (123 words)

	Amazon.ca: Roads to Commensurability: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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	Ph.D. Students
		Science, Syntax and Semantics: An Examination of the Philosophy of Language of Rudolf Camap,
		Methods, Principles, and Knowledge in the Ethical Philosophy of Henry Sidgwick,
		Explanation of Behavior: A Critical Examination of Charles Taylor's Philosophy of Psychology,
	www.ditext.com /sellars/disser2.html (260 words)

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