Incommensurability and translation : Kuhnian perspectives on scientific communication and theory change / edited by Rema Rossini Favretti, Giorgio Sandri, Roberto Scazzieri.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Translating Languages: an Introductory Essay / Rema Rossini Favretti, Giorgio Sandri and Roberto Scazzieri -- part 1. Incommensurability, Translation and Theory Change. 2. Remarks on Incommensurability and Translation / Thomas S. Kuhn. 3. A Diachronic View of the Languages of Science / Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi. 4. Reference, Conceptual Scheme and Radical Interpretation / Eva Picardi. 5. Two Models of the Overlap of the Sciences: Modern Reductionism and Medieval Abstraction / Timothy S. McDermott -- part 2. Communicating Science. 6. The Grammatical Construction of Scientific Knowledge: the Framing of the English Clause / Michael A.K. Halliday. 7. Linguistics, Hermeneutics and Analysis of Scientific Discourse / Enrico Arcaini.

This book explores an evolutionary theory of scientific knowledge, and provides the basis for a new linguistic approach to methodology. Including an original essay by the late Thomas Kuhn, this volume takes inspiration from his work in history and the philosophy of sciences. The authors highlight the critical importance of the relationship between the process of learning a language and translation, and use this to examine scientific language and interpretation.