Rationality, relativism and incommensurability. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Howard Sankey.
• Other Names: Sankey, Howard
• Contents: Part 1. Relativism. 1. Five Varieties of Cognitive Relativism. Part 2. Incommensurability. 2. Kuhn’s Changing Concept of Incommensurability. 3. Kuhn’s Ontological Relativism. 4. Taxonomic Incommensurability. Part 3. Untranslatability. 5. In Defence of Untranslatability. 6. Incommensurability, Translation and Understanding. Part 4. Rationality. 7. The Problem of Rational Theory Choice. 8. Judgement and Rational Theory Choice. Part 5. Naturalism. 9. Rationality, Relativism and Methodological Pluralism. 10. Normative Naturalism and the Challenge of Relativism. 11. Popper’s Metamethodological Conventionalism and the Turn to Naturalism.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (210 pages)
• Subjects: 501; Science -- Philosophy; Rationalism; Relativity; Rationalism; Relativity; Science -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429776113
• Related ISBNs: 042977611X
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