Incommensurability and Translation

Download or read book Incommensurability and Translation written by Rema Rossini Favretti and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors from the fields of philosophy, history of science, linguistics, logic, and economics take inspiration from the work of the late Thomas Kuhn, scholar of history and the philosophy of science, to address a variety of research lines in the pragmatical dimension of language, the internal ambiguity of linguistic standards, and the critical role of constructive translation as a bridge between seemingly incommensurable paradigms and cultures. The volume's 28 contributions are divided into four sections: incommensurability, translation, and theory change; communicating science; cognition and formal reconstruction; and lexicon and semantics and primarily consist of articles which emerged from the International Conference on Languages of Science, organized by the University of Bologna in October 1995. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR