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Frank Zenker, Peter Gärdenfors
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This article outlines how conceptual spaces theory applies to modeling changes of scientific frameworks when these are treated as spatial structures rather than as linguistic entities. The theory is briefly introduced and five types of changes are presented. It is then contrasted with Michael Friedman’s neo-Kantian account that seeks to render Kuhn’s “paradigm shift” as a communicatively rational historical event of conceptual development in the sciences. Like Friedman, we refer to the transition from Newtonian to relativistic mechanics as an example of “deep conceptual change.” But we take the communicative rationality of radical conceptual change to be available prior to the philosophical meta-paradigms that Friedman deems indispensable for this purpose.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Applications of Conceptual Spaces |
Subtitle of host publication | The Case for Geometric Knowledge Representation |
Editors | F. Zenker, P. Gärdenfors |
Place of Publication | Cham |
Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
Pages | 259-277 |
Number of pages | 19 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319150215 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783319150208 |
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Publication status | Published - 2015 Jan 1 |
Event | Conceptual spaces at work, 2012 - Lund, Sweden Duration: 2012 May 24 → 2012 May 26 |
Name | Synthese library. Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science |
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Publisher | Springer |
Volume | 359 |
Conference | Conceptual spaces at work, 2012 |
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Country/Territory | Sweden |
City | Lund |
Period | 2012/05/24 → 2012/05/26 |
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