Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison
Soler, Léna / Hoyningen-Huene, Paul / Sankey, H. The volume is a collection of essays devoted to the analysis of scientific change and stability. It explores the balance and tension that exists between commensurability and continuity on the one hand, and incommensurability and discontinuity on the other. And it discusses some central epistemological consequences regarding the nature of scientific progress, rationality and realism. In relation to these topics, it investigates a number of new ...