Modeling diachronic changes in structuralism and conceptual spaces
Gärdenfors, Peter LU and Zenker, Frank LU
(2014)
In Erkenntnis
79.
p.1547-1561
- Abstract
- Abstract in Undetermined
Our aim in this article is to show how the theory of conceptual spaces can be useful in describing diachronic changes to conceptual frameworks, and thus useful in understanding conceptual change in the empirical sciences. We also compare the conceptual space approach to Moulines's typology of intertheoretical relations in the structuralist tradition. Unlike structuralist reconstructions, those based on conceptual spaces yield a natural way of modeling the changes of a conceptual framework, including noncumulative changes, by tracing the changes to the dimensions that reconstitute a conceptual framework. As a consequence, the incommensurability of empirical theories need not be viewed as a matter of conceptual... (More) - Abstract in Undetermined
Our aim in this article is to show how the theory of conceptual spaces can be useful in describing diachronic changes to conceptual frameworks, and thus useful in understanding conceptual change in the empirical sciences. We also compare the conceptual space approach to Moulines's typology of intertheoretical relations in the structuralist tradition. Unlike structuralist reconstructions, those based on conceptual spaces yield a natural way of modeling the changes of a conceptual framework, including noncumulative changes, by tracing the changes to the dimensions that reconstitute a conceptual framework. As a consequence, the incommensurability of empirical theories need not be viewed as a matter of conceptual representation. (Less)
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- Gärdenfors, Peter
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and Zenker, Frank
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- 2014
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- pages
- 1547 - 1561
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- Springer
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- 1572-8420
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- 10.1007/s10670-013-9582-9
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- Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
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