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Scrutinizing Science :

9400928556

9789400928558

b592973

Scrutinizing Science :

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Empirical Studies of Scientific Change

edited by Arthur Donovan, Larry Laudan, Rachel Laudan.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1988

(400 pages)

Synthese library, 193.

I --; Testing Theories of Scientific Change --; II: Case Studies --; 1. 17Th-Century Mechanics --; Galileo's Copernicanism and the Acceptability of Guiding Assumptions --; Newton's Rejection of the Mechanical AEther: Empirical Difficulties and Guiding Assumptions --; The Vortex Theory of Motion, 1687-1713: Empirical Difficulties and Guiding Assumptions --; 2. Chemistry from the 18th to the 20th Centuries --; The Chemical Revolution: Shifts in Guiding Assumptions --; Molecular Geometry in 19th-century France: Shifts in Guiding Assumptions --; Kekulé's Benzene Theory and the Appraisal of Scientific Theories --; Fermentation Theory: Empirical Difficulties and Guiding Assumptions --; The Polywater Episode and the Appraisal of Theories --; 3. 19Th-Century Physics --; Ampère's Electrodynamics and the Acceptability of Guiding Assumptions --; Brownian Motion and the Appraisal of Theories --; The Michelson --; Morley Experiment and the Appraisal of Theories --; 4. Recent Geological Theory --; Plate Tectonics and Inter-Theory Relations --; The Theory of an Expanding Earth and the Acceptability of Guiding Assumptions --; 5. 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 --; Index of Thesis Citations and.

Philosophy (General)

Science -- Philosophy.

edited by Arthur Donovan, Larry Laudan, Rachel Laudan.

Arthur Donovan

Larry Laudan

Rachel Laudan

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