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The Cambridge History of Seventeeth-Century Philosophy,2eéd., coll. « Cambridge History of Philosophy », 2 volRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 195 (2): 216-217. 2005.
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42Duhem on Maxwell: A Case-Study in the Interrelations of History of Science and Philosophy of SciencePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986. 1986.We examine Duhem's critique of Maxwell, especially Duhem's complaints that Maxwell's theory is too bold or not systematic enough, that it is too dependent on models, and that its concepts are not continuous with those of the past. We argue that these complaints are connected by Duhem's historical criterion for the evaluation of physical theories. We briefly compare Duhem's criterion of historical continuity with similar criteria developed by "historicists" like Kuhn and Lakatos. We argue that Du…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Physical Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |