Scrutinizing science : empirical studies of scientific change
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Scrutinizing science : empirical studies of scientific change
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992
- pbk. : alk. paper
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Originally published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1988. (Synthese library ; v. 193)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
In "Scrutinizing Science" nineteen historians of science, philosophers of science, and scientists test a selection of major theories - including those of Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend, and Larry Lauden - against important episodes in the development of the physical sciences. this paperback edition includes a new introduction by the editors.
目次
- Theories of scientific change - a call for testing
- a programme for testing
- findings
- 17th-century mechanics
- Galileo's Copernicanism and the acceptability of guiding assumptions
- Newton's rejection of the mechanical aether
- the vortex theory of motion, 1687-1713
- chemistry from the 18th to the 20th centuries
- the chemical revolution
- molecular geometry in 19th-century France
- Kekule's Benzene theory and the appraisal of scientific theories
- fermentation theory
- the polywater episode and the appraisal of theories
- 19th century physics
- Ampere's electrodynamics and the acceptability of guiding assumptions
- Brownian motion and the appraisal of theories
- the Michelson-Morley experiment and the appraisal of theories
- recent geological theory
- plate tectonics and inter- theory relations
- the theory of an expanding earth and the acceptability of guiding assumptions
- 20th century physics
- Planck's quantum crisis and shifts in guiding assumptions
- nuclear magnetic resonance and the acceptability of guiding assumptions
- electroweak unification and the appraisal of theories.
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