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Journal articles on the topic "Incommensurability"

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Locke, Patricia. "Incommensurability." Hypatia 18, no. 4 (2003): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hyp.2003.0084.

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Locke, Patricia M. "Incommensurability." Hypatia 18, no. 4 (2003): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0887536700016056.

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Locke, Patricia M. "Incommensurability." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 18, no. 4 (October 2003): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/hyp.2003.18.4.1.

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Warner, Richard. "Does Incommensurability Matter? Incommensurability and Public Policy." University of Pennsylvania Law Review 146, no. 5 (June 1998): 1287. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3312807.

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Rokem, Jonathan. "Beyond incommensurability." City 20, no. 3 (May 3, 2016): 472–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2016.1166698.

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Yamashita, Mineko. "Cultural Incommensurability." Journal of Nursing Scholarship 36, no. 3 (September 2004): 190. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1547-5069.2004.4035_4.x.

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Sankey, Howard. "Taxonomic incommensurability." International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 12, no. 1 (March 1998): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02698599808573578.

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Brown, Harold I. "Incommensurability reconsidered." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 36, no. 1 (March 2005): 149–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2004.12.008.

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Sayeed, Syed. "Salvaging Incommensurability." Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research 36, no. 1 (July 13, 2018): 97–124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40961-018-0156-8.

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Kahan, Dan M. "Punishment Incommensurability." Buffalo Criminal Law Review 1, no. 2 (January 1, 1998): 691–708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nclr.1998.1.2.691.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Incommensurability"

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Li, Chuang Tong. "Incommensurability revisited." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6628.

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In the dissertation, I propose to consider the vicissitudes of Thomas Kuhn's historical approach to science with an eye to clarifying his controversial notion of incommensurability. Although the notion of incommensurability, one of the most significant results of Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, has been much criticized in recent Anglo-American philosophy, I argue that it incorporates insights that are still worth reviving and defending. Moreover, since these insights derived from Kuhn's syntheses of the ideas of thinkers such as L. Fleck, A. Koyre, L. Wittgenstein, N. Hanson, M. Polanyi, H. Gadamer and P. Feyerabend, my defence of Kuhn's concept of incommensurability provides a review of some profound issues in recent Anglo-American philosophy. Also in this connection, I assume that the"Kuhnian Revolution" in philosophy of science in the 1960s did not occur by chance in the avenue of contemporary American philosophy. Rather, the appearance, the reception and the subsequent criticism of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, including Kuhn's later conversion to the "analytical tradition", must be interpreted in their respective philosophical contexts. I maintain that the debate between the Kuhnian school and its opponents should be examined historically in the light of the deeper and broader cultural and philosophical issues involved, issues that even Kuhn seems not to have fully appreciated. Through investigating the debate, I argue that the critiques of Kuhn's original ideas, including his own later objections to the ideas, presuppose as well as impose the analytical standard of legitimatization that underlies present-day Anglo-American ways of reasoning. It is this standard, however, that presupposes the very requirement whose feasibility Kuhn's notions of paradigms and incommensurability put into question. More specifically, I defend Kuhn's historical approach to philosophy of science in 1962 against those criticisms which are guided merely by ahistorical and linguistic requirements of analyzability, and criticize Kuhn's acceptance of the precepts of the analytical tradition since 1969. Central to this research is the view that there are phenomena of incommensurability in the process of communication and understanding and that no account of rationality is valid unless it recognizes the development of reason in history. In light of this, I hold, the analytical approach should always allow a historically-oriented vision in order to detect the real picture of our everyday thinking. To understand different rationalities in history and culture, philosophy must go to the history of sciences and to the real process of our everyday thinking. Methodologically, I approach the vicissitudes of Thomas Kuhn's notion of incommensurability in two ways: in Part I by historical case studies of Kuhn's changing views, and in Part II by philosophical reflections on those consequences of the historical case studies. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Elton, Candida. "Incommensurability : contemporary considerations: historical concerns." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364456.

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Kosub, Timothy Alexander. "A defence of Kuhn's incommensurability thesis." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28254.

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Kuhn's incommensurability thesis is the claim that successive scientific theories often conflict not only logically but also normatively: i.e. they differ both about nature and also about the use of common apparatus, concepts and experimental results, and what are proper scientific goals and methods. Critics commonly object that Kuhn's thesis attacks such traditional scientific values as objectivity and rationality. But their strongest response can be expressed as a dilemma: either, if taken literally, the incommensurability thesis is self-contradictory; or, if that literal reading is rejected, this thesis has no philosophical Import. Kuhn claims his critics have misinterpreted his thesis and he maintains both its intelligibility and relevance. The problem is whether his position can be sustained. In support of Kuhn, I argue that his critics' reading of his thesis is based on a mistaken Identification of logic with formal logic and, more generally, of comparability with commensurabil-lty. I argue that logical comparison of theories that lack common concepts is possible if one can compare theories directly, as whole to whole, and that such direct logical comparison is actually commonplace in natural languages. I also argue more generally that Kuhn's critics' identification of comparison with com-mensuration leads to a vicious regress. My attempt at resolving the dispute between Kuhn and his critics is informed by a simple "hermeneutic" principle: If one view seems either unintelligible or irrelevant to the other, then both sides probably disagree on the Interpretation of shared concepts. Once the focus of the dispute is located, arguments can often be given for preferring one interpretation over another. Thus if I am right that Kuhn's critics' view wrongly equates comparability with commensurability and logic with formal logic, that view clearly must be replaced by one that distinguishes them. I argue that if those distinctions are made, incommensurability can be seen to represent no essential threat to scientific rationality and objectivity. In this light, I suggest Kuhn's major analytic concepts be viewed as Improvements on more traditional notions drawn from formal logic. I also use a historical case study of the original discovery of geometrical incommensurability to illustrate further Kuhn's concepts and to develop a more general notion of a proof of incommensurability that is applicable to scientific theories.
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Boot, Martijn. "Incommensurability, incomplete comparability and the scales of justice." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491571.

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This dissertation investigates the possible implications of incommensurability of values for practical reason and distributive justice. Under certain conditions incommensurability of values causes incomplete comparability' of options.
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Smith, Philip. "Kuhnian incommensurability between two paradigms of contemporary linguistics." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14562/.

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This dissertation proposes a theory of reference for the language of scientific theories. This theory of reference looks at the nature of postulation in scientific theories, and shows that mental posits are metaphorical in nature. It is a hybrid of internalist and extensive reference theories. This, allied with the competing epistemological assumptions of competing schools of linguistics, can account for the existence of incommensurability across two paradigms of linguistics. The relationship between transformational generative grammar and socio- linguistics is vexed. Both claim the same object of study, but with radi- cally different methods and aims. This dissertation shows that the meta- phorical nature of the posits used in each leads to incommensurable vo- cabularies. Thomas Kuhn's notions of paradigms and incommensurability are used to elucidate this relationship. Chapter one proposes and explains the theory of reference. Chapter two defines the major areas of the thesis. Chapter three explores the history of linguists claiming that a particular area of linguistics instantiates a Kuhnian paradigm, and looks at arguments concerning the possibilities for studying language scientifically. Chapter four explores the epistemological bases of TGG and sociolinguistics, starting from Chomsky's claims to do 'Cartesian linguistics', and concludes that opposing epistemological commitments lead to incommensurability. Chapter five demonstrates the inc- ornmensurable concepts and vocabulary items, and shows how my theory of reference can account for that incommensurability, while maintaining a certain amount of the traditional natural science - social science distinction. Because postulation is free and metaphorical. terms borrowed from natural languages into scientific theories can end up with overlapping, but incommensurable, references. Incommensurability is shown to be local and surmountable, through 'language-learning' rather than through 'translation'.
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Reeve, Andrew F. "Incommensurability in ethics and in the philosophy of science." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ51221.pdf.

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Fardell, B. P. "The structure of well-being : incommensurability, needs, and sufficiency." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2016. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1476165/.

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As it is discussed in philosophy, economics, and some other social sciences, well-being is very commonly conceived of and treated in quantificational terms. However, it is difficult, if not impossible to make room in the quantificational conception of well-being for any notion of sufficiency––of having enough in a sense that it is especially ethically significant that people attain. This difficulty with sufficiency is encapsulated by the Threshold Problem: that of non-arbitrarily specifying a sufficiency level on a scale of well-being. This thesis takes this difficulty and this problem as an opportunity to investigate deeper problems with the quantifying approach. One line of inquiry pursued is whether a theory of needs could solve the Threshold Problem. To this end existing theories of needs are surveyed, but found wanting. The central element of the thesis, however, is a critique of the quantifying account of well-being emerging from a discussion of value incommensurability––which in turn provides resources for the development of an account of the structure of well-being. This account presents a new theory of needs, and analyses well-being in terms of needs. It avoids the Threshold Problem, because well-being is no longer a level at which a person is, nor an amount of anything they have. Rather, both having enough and being well are to have everything one needs.
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Seane, Warona. "O Kae? An Autoethnographic Dramaturgy Through A Deliberate Incommensurability." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32109.

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This study focuses on the erasure of the black woman from the mainstream theatre space of South Africa as a provocation towards the creation of a dramaturgical process that pivots around the notion of 'deliberate incommensurability' as a catalyst for exploration. 'deliberate incommensurability' is a term I have coined myself as it suggests an agency in the black woman as subject and object of study. I suggest the requirement for an autoethnographic inquest in carrying out the research, as the methodology used in the creation of the processes and products of the study was Practice as Research (PaR). The methodology uses the modes of translation and literary studies in order to unpack the myriad ways in which the representation of the black female has effectively been an erasure of her presence. I detail four points of origin for the study drawn primarily from Gayatri C. Spivak and Toni Morrison. In addition, the study interrogates the processes towards creating O Kae? - a performance installation that evaluates the importance of opacity towards the self-representation of the Other in an attempt to discover an alternative aesthetic and creative praxis for myself.
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Rea, Matthew T. "Policy, values & incommensurability : the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Project /." Thesis, This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08142009-040628/.

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Gilson, Cedric Charles. "Resources for mediating the incommensurability of science and law in legal contexts." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442108.

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Books on the topic "Incommensurability"

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Andersson, Henrik, and Anders Herlitz. Value Incommensurability. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003148012.

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Sankey, Howard. The incommensurability thesis. Aldershot, [U.K.]: Avebury, 1994.

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Allen, Harris Randy, ed. Rhetoric and incommensurability. West Lafayette, Ind: Parlor Press, 2005.

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Sankey, Howard. Rationality, relativism, and incommensurability. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 1997.

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Sankey, Howard, and Paul Hoyningen-Huene. Incommensurability and related matters. Dordrecht: Springer, 2011.

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1946-, Hoyningen-Huene Paul, and Sankey Howard, eds. Incommensurability and related matters. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

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Hoyningen-Huene, Paul, and Howard Sankey, eds. Incommensurability and Related Matters. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9680-0.

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Ruth, Chang, ed. Incommensurability, incomparability, and practical reasoning. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1997.

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Ordinary choices: Individuals, incommensurability, and democracy. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005.

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All in the family: On community and incommensurability. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.

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Book chapters on the topic "Incommensurability"

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Doetjes, Jenny. "Incommensurability." In Logic, Language and Meaning, 254–63. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_26.

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Khalidi, Muhammad Ali. "Incommensurability." In A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, 172–80. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781405164481.ch27.

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Chang, Ruth. "Are Hard Cases Vague Cases?" In Value Incommensurability, 50–70. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003148012-4.

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Broome, John. "Incommensurateness Is Vagueness." In Value Incommensurability, 29–49. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003148012-3.

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Steele, Katie. "Incommensurability That Can(not) Be Ignored." In Value Incommensurability, 231–46. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003148012-16.

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Bykvist, Krister. "Cross-Categorical Value Comparisons." In Value Incommensurability, 162–80. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003148012-12.

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Qizilbash, Mozaffar. "On “Incommensurability,” “Discontinuity,” and the Repugnant Conclusion." In Value Incommensurability, 87–108. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003148012-7.

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Andersson, Henrik, and Anders Herlitz. "Introduction." In Value Incommensurability, 1–25. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003148012-1.

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Elson, Luke. "What Does Incommensurability Tell Us About Agency? 1." In Value Incommensurability, 181–98. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003148012-13.

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Rabinowicz, Wlodek. "Incommensurability Meets Risk." In Value Incommensurability, 201–30. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003148012-15.

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Conference papers on the topic "Incommensurability"

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Constantinides, H. "The incommensurability of 'faster, better, cheaper': NASA's rhetorical bind." In IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, 2003. IPCC 2003. Proceedings. IEEE, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ipcc.2003.1245498.

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Fredrickson, Daniel C. "Chemical Driving Forces and Pathways for Incommensurability in Intermetallic Phases." In Aperiodic 2018 ("9th Conference on Aperiodic Crystals"). Iowa State University, Digital Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/aperiodic2018-180810-16.

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Benferhat, Salem, Zied Bouraoui, Ma Thi Chau, Sylvain Lagrue, and Julien Rossit. "A Polynomial Algorithm for Merging Lightweight Ontologies in Possibility Theory Under Incommensurability Assumption." In 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0006120804150422.

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Dienwiebel, M., G. S. Verhoeven, N. Pradeep, H. W. Zandbergen, and J. W. M. Frenken. "Atomic-Scale Observation of Superlubricity." In World Tribology Congress III. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/wtc2005-64003.

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Graphite is known to be a good solid lubricant. The low-friction behavior is commonly ascribed to the low resistance to shear. Using a home-built frictional force microscope that is able to detect forces in three dimensions, we have studied the energy dissipation between a tungsten tip sliding over a graphite surface in dry contact. By measuring atomic-scale friction as a function of the rotational angle between two contacting bodies we show that the origin of the ultra-low friction of graphite lies in the incommensurability between rotated graphite layers, an effect proposed under the name of ‘superlubricity’.
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Schmid, Steven R., and James J. Mason. "The Trolley Problem and the Type IV Safety Device." In ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2011-65185.

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The Trolley Problem is a common problem considered by philosophers, because of the many variations that exist and the subtle differences in solutions that can be generated. Recent research has coupled the Trolley Problem with neuroimaging techniques (fMRI), and demonstrates a complex interaction between cognitive and emotional responses depending on the problem variant. This paper poses the Engineer’s variant of the Trolley problem, namely whether or not an engineer should incorporate safety devices in design if the safety devices have a downside with respect to safety. The authors provide a design paradigm that incorporates the Dangerous Safeguard Consensus, the Intrinsic Classification of Safeguard Devices, and the Safeguard Evaluation Protocol. This paradigm is consistent with the admonitions in the safety literature, industry standards, and governmental codes, the incommensurability of human lives and a utilitarian world view.
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