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Contributors | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Incommensurability, As Differences in Quasi-Intuitive Cognitive Capacities: A Task for Psychology? | p. 19 |
Incommensurability Naturalized | p. 21 |
Commentary on Bird's Paper | p. 41 |
Incommensurability in a Wittgensteinian Perspective: How to Make Sense of Nonsense | p. 47 |
Nonsense and Paradigm Change | p. 49 |
Commentary on Baltas' Paper | p. 71 |
Intra-Theoretical Change, as a Subjective Creative Elucidation of an Objective Formerly Present Content | p. 85 |
From One Version to the Other: Intra-theoretical Change | p. 87 |
Commentary on Barberousse's Paper | p. 103 |
Investigating the Continuities of Scientific Theorizing: A Task for the Bayesian? | p. 107 |
Modeling High-Temperature Superconductivity: Correspondence at Bay? | p. 109 |
Commentary on Hartmann's Paper | p. 131 |
From the Cumulativity of Physical Predictions to the Cumulativity of Physics | p. 143 |
Is Science Cumulative? A Physicist Viewpoint | p. 145 |
Commentary on D'Espagnat's Paper | p. 153 |
From Denotational Continuity to Entity Realism | p. 157 |
The Optimistic Meta-Induction and Ontological Continuity: The Case of the Electron | p. 159 |
Commentary on Nola's Paper | p. 203 |
Is a Realist Interpretation of Quantum Physics Possible? | p. 207 |
Can we Consider Quantum Mechanics to be a Description of Reality? | p. 209 |
Commentary on Zwirn' Paper | p. 219 |
Ontological Continuity: A Policy for Model Building or an Argument in Favour of Scientific Realism? | p. 223 |
Reasons for Choosing Among Readings of Equipollent Theories | p. 225 |
Commentary on Harre's Paper | p. 239 |
A Change of Perspective: Dissolving the Incommensurability Problem in the Framework of a Theoretical Pluralism Incorporating an Instrumental Rationality | p. 245 |
Of Course Idealizations are Incommensurable! | p. 247 |
Commentary on Teller's Paper | p. 265 |
What Can Philosophical Theories of Scientific Method Do? | p. 271 |
The Aim and Structure of Methodological Theory | p. 273 |
Commentary on Carrier's Paper | p. 291 |
A New Kind of Incommensurability at the Level of Experimental Practices? | p. 297 |
The Incommensurability of Experimental Practices: An Incommensurability of What? An Incommensurability of a Third Type? | p. 299 |
Commentary on Soler's Paper | p. 341 |
Pragmatic Breakdowns: A New Kind of Scientific Revolution? | p. 349 |
Disruptive Scientific Change | p. 351 |
Commentary on Nickles' Paper | p. 381 |
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