Conceptual Learning and Local Incommensurability

A Dynamic Logic Approach

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ID21655301
AuthorsCorina Strößner (0000-0001-9464-5114, Ruhr University Bochum, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume32
Issue6
Pages1025-1045
Publication date2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAxiomathes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1122-1151 • E-ISSN: 1572-8390
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10516-021-09563-6
OpenAlexW3176428707
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited34

In recent decades, the logical study of rational belief dynamics has played an increasingly important role in philosophy. However, the dynamics of concepts such as conceptual learning received comparatively little attention within this debate. This is problematic insofar as the occurrence of conceptual change (especially in the sciences) has been an influential argument against a merely logical analysis of beliefs. Especially Kuhn’s ideas about the incommensurability, i.e., untranslatability, of succeeding theories seem to stand in the way of logical reconstruction. This paper investigates conceptual change as model-changing operations similar to belief revision and relates it to the notion of incommensurability. I consider several versions of conceptual change and discuss their influences on the expressive power, translatability and the potential arising of incommensurability. The paper concludes with a discussion of animal taxonomy in Aristotle’s and Linnaeus’s work

Cognitive science · Conceptual change · Epistemology · Logical framework · Ontology · Sociology · Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference · Computer Science · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Philosophy · Psychology

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