Thursday, June 29, 2006
The University of Essex is hosting a Phenomenology Workshop and their blog is reporting on the papers presented. Hat tip to Clark, who has a bunch other interesting stuff on his blog.
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This is one of those "it depends". Heidegger doesn't talk about such a theory, although he does use the word incommensurality--or at least his translators do. I assume the reference point here is Kuhn.
I think there's commensurality within a domain, say in a branch of science, as that's what defines the domain.
Heidegger himself says that something as fundamental as ontology (i.e. prior to epistemology) changes between historical epochs, which would put him in the incommensurality camp. But I wouldn't call what he has to say a theory.
I do think Heidegger's lectures on the differences, and similarities (they think much the same fundamentally that the bandying about of "revolution" would lead you to believe), between Aristotle and modern science are pertinent here. And I'll have another excerpt in the next few days.
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I think there's commensurality within a domain, say in a branch of science, as that's what defines the domain.
Heidegger himself says that something as fundamental as ontology (i.e. prior to epistemology) changes between historical epochs, which would put him in the incommensurality camp. But I wouldn't call what he has to say a theory.
I do think Heidegger's lectures on the differences, and similarities (they think much the same fundamentally that the bandying about of "revolution" would lead you to believe), between Aristotle and modern science are pertinent here. And I'll have another excerpt in the next few days.
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