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Theory and Experiment

Recent Insights and New Perspectives on Their Relation

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Editors:
  1. Diderik Batens

    1. Rijksuniversiteit Gent and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, N.F.W.O., Belgium

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  2. Jean Paul Bendegem

    1. Rijksuniversiteit Gent and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, N.F.W.O., Belgium

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 195)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  3. The Roles of Experiment: Theory Generation and Theory Testing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Reconstructing Science: Discovery and Experiment

      • Thomas Nickles
      Pages 33-53
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    3. The Role of Experiment and Theory in the Development of Nuclear Physics in the Early 1930’s

      • Erwin Hiebert
      Pages 55-76
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    4. Empirical Support for the Corpuscular Theory in the Seventeenth Century

      • Christoph Meinel
      Pages 77-92
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    5. Theory and Experiment in the Early Writings of Johan Baptist Van Helmont

      • Robert Halleux
      Pages 93-101
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    6. The Significance of Empirical Evidence for Developments in the Foundations of Decision Theory

      • Nils-Eric Sahlin
      Pages 103-121
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    7. Testing Freudian Hypotheses

      • Edward Erwin
      Pages 123-140
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    8. Experiment, Theory Choice, and the Duhem-Quine Problem

      • Allan Franklin
      Pages 141-155
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  4. The Role of Theoretical Conceptions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Physical Reality and Closed Theories in Werner Heisenberg’s Early Papers

      • Catherine Chevalley
      Pages 159-176
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    3. Experiment and Theory in Ptolemy’s Optics

      • Gerard Simon
      Pages 177-188
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    4. Newton’s and Goethe’s Colour Theories — Contradictory or Complementary Approaches?

      • Huldrych M. Koelbing
      Pages 189-206
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    5. On the Structure of Physics as a Science

      • Aristides Baltas
      Pages 207-225
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    6. Models and Interpretation in Human Sciences: Anthropology and the Theoretical Notion of Field

      • Silvana Borutti
      Pages 227-241
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    7. On the Dynamics of Scientific Paradigms

      • Vincenzo Cappelletti
      Pages 243-258
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    8. Breaking the Link between Methodology and Rationality. A Plea for Rhetoric in Scientific Inquiry

      • Marcello Pera
      Pages 259-276
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About this book

This is not "another collection of contributions on a traditional subject." Even more than we dared to expect during the preparatory stages, the papers in this volume prove that our thinking about science has taken a new turn and has reached a new stage. The progressive destruction of the received view has been a fascinating and healthy experience. At present, the period of destruction is over. A richer and more equilibrated analysis of a number of problems is possible and is being cru'ried out. In this sense, this book comes right on time. We owe a lot to the scholars of the Kuhnian period. They not only did away with obstacles, but in several respects instigated a shift in attention that changed history and philosophy of science in a irreversible way. A c1earcut example - we borrow it from the paper by Risto Hilpinen - concerns the study of science as a process, Rnd not only as a result. Moreover, they apparently reached several lasting results, e.g., concerning the tremendous impact of theoretical conceptions on empirical data. Apart from baffling people for several decades, this insight rules out an­ other return to simple-minded empiricism in the future.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rijksuniversiteit Gent and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, N.F.W.O., Belgium

    Diderik Batens, Jean Paul Bendegem

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Theory and Experiment

  • Book Subtitle: Recent Insights and New Perspectives on Their Relation

  • Editors: Diderik Batens, Jean Paul Bendegem

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2875-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2645-2Published: 31 January 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7794-1Published: 14 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2875-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 296

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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