id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_fcwpxg6qzrfqzggo53vtdt6wxa Vincenzo Politi Specialisation, Interdisciplinarity, and Incommensurability 2017 21 .pdf application/pdf 8758 613 42 that, in order to understand the role of incommensurability in scientific specialisation, the latter different specialties may become incommensurable through interdisciplinarity. and since Kuhn developed a model of specialisation as driven by incommensurability, we will In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn [1962] 1996), incommensurability describes Methodological incommensurability, for example, poses a problem to scientific practice but it more to incommensurability than Kuhn's theory of meaning. different disciplines, with their own separate domain, is beside the point: incommensurability, in Kuhn's view on incommensurability as a conceptual/linguistic barrier hampering crossspecialty communication seems to be contradicted de facto by the existence of interdisciplinarity. problem to interdisciplinarity, since there is not an incommensurable divide separating different Since, in her view, scientific specialties are different and not incommensurable, the incommensurability thesis within a theory of scientific progress, in which science is Scientific Change and Collaborative Research." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ./cache/work_fcwpxg6qzrfqzggo53vtdt6wxa.pdf ./txt/work_fcwpxg6qzrfqzggo53vtdt6wxa.txt