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Scrutinizing Science Arthur Donovan

Scrutinizing Science By Arthur Donovan

Scrutinizing Science by Arthur Donovan

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Asking how and why scientific theories change, and how the philosophy of science should relate to its history, these essays test a selection of theories against episodes in the development of the physical sciences. Case studies from 17th-century mechanics, among others, are presented.

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Scrutinizing Science: Empirical Studies of Scientific Change by Arthur Donovan

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.

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A tightly focused collection of essays which will be a valuable resource for teaching methodology in Philosophy of Science.--'British Journal of Historical Science'

Table of Contents

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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CIN0801845173A
9780801845178
0801845173
Scrutinizing Science: Empirical Studies of Scientific Change by Arthur Donovan
Arthur Donovan
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Johns Hopkins University Press
19921101
408
N/A
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