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Thomas Kuhn (Part 3): Epistemic Incommensurabiity or How Theory Can Affect Your Eye Balls

Thomas Kuhn (Part 3): Epistemic Incommensurabiity or How Theory Can Affect Your Eye Balls

FromOn The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast


Thomas Kuhn (Part 3): Epistemic Incommensurabiity or How Theory Can Affect Your Eye Balls

FromOn The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast

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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Oct 7, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this third installment of a four part series on Thomas Kuhn and the allegedly incommensurable revolutions of science, I look at the idea of epistemic incommensurability. Last episode, I looked at semantic incommensurability - a more intuitively easier idea to get your head around. Semantic incommensurability is the idea that a shift in intensional meanings of a concept such as 'planet' or 'bile' can lead to that concept being untranslatable in terms of it’s former variations within older scientific paradigms so that an idea of progress in moving from one variation of a concept to the next becomes unintelligible. In this episode, I want to look at the idea of epistemic incommensurability where a shift in the intensional meanings of a concept and it's connected theory can produce two people to have two different experiences when viewing the same object or phenomenon. You see phlogiston; I see oxygen. We will see how our sweet eyes deceive us. Or so says Kuhn.
Released:
Oct 7, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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A self-indulgent vanity project of a man with a microphone in hand, each episode explores a philosophical theme hopefully with a certain degree of accuracy. I try to keep it pretty light. More philosophy nerd than academic, it sprung out of free time during the pandemic. @KMaca5