Conceptual learning and local incommensurability
- In recent decades, the logical study of rational belief dynamics has played an increasingly important role in philosophy. However, the dynamics of concepts such as conceptual learning received comparatively little attention within this debate. This is problematic insofar as the occurrence of conceptual change (especially in the sciences) has been an influential argument against a merely logical analysis of beliefs. Especially Kuhn's ideas about the incommensurability, i.e., untranslatability, of succeeding theories seem to stand in the way of logical reconstruction. This paper investigates conceptual change as model-changing operations similar to belief revision and relates it to the notion of incommensurability. I consider several versions of conceptual change and discuss their influences on the expressive power, translatability and the potential arising of incommensurability. The paper concludes with a discussion of animal taxonomy in Aristotle's and Linnaeus's work.
| Author: | Corina StrößnerORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-99350 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-021-09563-6 |
| Parent Title (English): | Axiomathes |
| Subtitle (English): | a dynamic logic approach |
| Publisher: | Springer Science + Business Media B.V |
| Place of publication: | Dordrecht |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/06/02 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/06/28 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | Conceptual change; Conceptual learning; Dynamic logic; Incommensurability; Kuhn |
| Volume: | 32 |
| First Page: | 1025 |
| Last Page: | 1045 |
| Note: | Dieser Beitrag ist auf Grund des DEAL-Springer-Vertrages frei zugänglich. |
| Institutes/Facilities: | Institut für Philosophie II |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | Philosophie und Psychologie / Philosophie |
| open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
| faculties: | Fakultät für Philosophie und Erziehungswissenschaft |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International |
