Incommensurability and Translation : Kuhnian Perspectives on Scientific Communication and Theory Change

By: Roberto Scazzieri (Editor), etc. (Editor), Rema Rossini Favretti (Editor), Giorgio Sandri (Editor)

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An exploration of the evolutionary theory of scientific knowledge which suggests a basis for a new linguistic approach to methodology. It includes an essay by Thomas Khun and is informed by his work. It compares learning a language/translation with the relationship between economics and philosophy.

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List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Translating Languages: an Introductory Essay	p. 1
Incommensurability, Translation and Theory Change
Remarks on Incommensurability and Translation	p. 33
A Diachronic View of the Languages of Science	p. 39
Reference, Conceptual Scheme and Radical Interpretation	p. 53
Two Models of the Overlap of the Sciences: Modern Reductionism and Medieval Abstraction	p. 69
Communicating Science
The Grammatical Construction of Scientific Knowledge: the Framing of the English Clause	p. 85
Linguistics, Hermeneutics and Analysis of Scientific Discourse	p. 117
Translating Aristotle: At the Origin of the Terminology and Content of Economic Value	p. 131
Ordinary Language and Formal Theory in Economics	p. 157
Scientific Discourse and Scientific Knowledge	p. 173
Rationality and Rhetoric in Smith and Keynes	p. 189
Scientific Discourse: Intertextual and Intercultural Practice	p. 201
Cognition and Formal Reconstruction
Argumentation and Knowledge: From Words to Terms	p. 219
Formalizing Discovery, Discovering Realism	p. 235
Causality: Cognition and Reality	p. 253
Explaining Behaviour by Cause or by Reason? The Cognitive Model	p. 267
Economic Beliefs, Economic Theory and Rational Reconstruction	p. 289
Representation Represented: Two Types of Semantic Scepticism in Economics	p. 307
Scientific Values, Probability and Acceptance	p. 323
Theory and Observation in Econometric Models: a Constructivist Approach	p. 339
Coherence, Meaning and Responsibility in the Language of Economics	p. 351
On the Recent Revival of the Philosophical Dimension in Economic Discourse: Notes on Crossing Boundaries	p. 369
Lexicon and Semantics
The Internalization of Dialogue	p. 391
Internal Structure and Argument Structure of Complex Words	p. 407
Lexical Information and Logical Structure of Linguistic Categories	p. 425
The Language of Logical Form	p. 443
The Grounding of Semantics: Towards an Algebra of Concepts	p. 455
Translation and Semantics	p. 469
Name Index	p. 489
Subject Index	p. 497
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