Comments on Eric Oberheim's "Incommensurability and Metaincommensurability"

LEANDRO GIRI

Buenos Aires

Congreso; II Coloquio de Filosofía e Historia de la Ciencia del Río de la Plata; 2018

IIF/Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico

From 1962 to our days, the concept of incommensurability, as expressed almost simultaneously and independently by Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend, has been a hot issue in the philosophy of science. Eric Oberheim brings us one of the most interesting chapters in the contemporaneous novel of the discussions around this complex concept: the controversy between Howard Sankey and the german team featuring Paul Hoyningen-Huene and Oberheim himself. Several essays were published along more than twenty years by our two contenders, showing that this friendly but tough philosophical war displays great vitality, and we have the great pleasure of watching the last battle in our southern lands. This work is intended to shed light on opaque aspects on both Oberheim and Sankey´s accounts of incommensurability.