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Commensurability is a concept in the philosophy of science whereby scientific theories are said to be "commensurable" if scientists can discuss the theories using a shared nomenclature that allows direct comparison of them to determine which one is more valid or useful.
25 de feb. de 2009 · Since 1962, the incommensurability of scientific theories has been a widely discussed, controversial idea that was instrumental in the historical turn in the philosophy of science and the establishment of the sociology of science as a professional discipline. 1. Introduction. 2. Revolutionary paradigms: Thomas Kuhn on incommensurability.
- Eric Oberheim, Paul Hoyningen-Huene
- 2009
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. If two scientific theories are incommensurable, there is no way in which one can compare them to each other in order to determine which is better.
Commensurability (ethics), the commensurability of values in ethics; Commensurability (group theory), when two groups have a subgroup of finite index in common; Commensurability (philosophy of science) Commensurability (physics), a concept in dimensional analysis that concerns conversion of units of measurement
Philosophy of science focuses on metaphysical, epistemic and semantic aspects of scientific practice, and overlaps with metaphysics, ontology, logic, and epistemology, for example, when it explores the relationship between science and the concept of truth.
1 de sept. de 2017 · Summary. Along with “paradigm” and “scientific revolution,” “incommensurability” is one of the three most influential expressions associated with the “new philosophy of science” first articulated in the early 1960s by Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend (see kuhn and feyerabend ).
Until the middle of the present century it was a commonly accepted opinion that theory change in science was the expression of cumulative progress consisting in the acquisition of new truths and the elimination of old errors. Logical empiricists developed. this idea through a deductive model, saying that a theory T superseding a theory Tmust be ...
