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Time and Quantum Theory:A History and A Prospectus
time quantum Pauli's theorem events Dirac Heisenberg
2016/6/15
In this paper I am concerned with analyzing in detail how ideas and expectations regarding the role of time in quantum theory arose and evolved in the early years of quantum mechanics (from 1925-27). ...
The Early History of Chance in Evolution
chance Charles Darwin evolution Francis Galton inheritance Karl Pearson natural selection statistics W.F.R. Weldon
2016/6/15
Work throughout the history and philosophy of biology frequently employs 'chance', 'unpredictability', 'probability', and many similar terms. One common way of understanding how these concepts were in...
Kuhn,Sarton,and the history of science
Kuhn Sarton Leonardo da Vinci history of science Butterfield William Harvey Galen
2016/6/15
The scientific work of Leonardo da Vinci may have served as the main inspiration for the historical research of George Sarton. Although he never produced a work he felt was worthy of its subject, the ...
Carnap,Kuhn,and the history of science
Carnap History of science Kuhn Logical positivism New historiography of science Philosophy of science Revisionism Sarton
2016/6/15
The purpose of this article is to respond to Thomas Uebel′s criticisms of my comments regarding the current revisionism of Carnap′s work and its relations to Kuhn. I begin by pointing out some misunde...
Tracing organizing principles:Learning from the history of systems biology
systems biology organizing principles general systems theory design principles mathematical modeling
2016/6/13
With the emergence of systems biology the notion of organizing principles is being highlighted as a key research aim. Researchers attempt to ‘reverse engineer’ the functional organization of biologica...
The Paranoid Style in American History of Science
Thomas S. Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Richard Hofstadter “The Paranoid Style in American Politics ” Cold War James B. Conant Brainwashing La estructura de las revoluciones científicas Guerra Fría lavado de cerebro
2016/5/31
Historian Richard Hofstadter’s observations about American cold-war politics are used to contextualize Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and argue that substantive claims about the...
The Strong and Weak Senses of Theory-Ladenness of Experimentation:Theory-Driven versus Exploratory Experiments in the History of High-Energy Particle Physics
scientific experimentation theory-ladenness exploratory experimentation SLAC deep-inelastic scattering experiments particle physics quantum field theory S-matrix theory Regge theory Bjorken's scaling hypothesis Feynman's parton model quarks QCD
2016/5/30
In the theory-dominated view of scientific experimentation, all relations of theory and experiment are taken on a par; namely, that experiments are performed solely to ascertain the conclusions of sci...
Four Species of Reflexivity and History of Economics in Economic Policy Science
Reflexivity, Philosophy and History of Economics, Economics Methodology, Public Policy
2011/9/8
This paper argues that history of economics has a fruitful, underappreciated role to play in the development of economics, especially when understood as a policy science. This goes against the grain o...
A Short History of the Method of Thought Experiments in Science
Galileo Kant Oersted Mach Einstein Heisenberg Lakatos
2009/6/24
A Short History of the Method of Thought Experiments in Science。
Part One of the paper begins by recalling a historic conference in 1969 that argued the importance of work that would draw on both history and philosophy of science, two academic fields that had in th...
What can we conclude from a mere handful of case studies? The field of HPS has witnessed too many hasty philosophical generalizations based on a small number of conveniently chosen case studies. One m...
History and Philosophy of Science: A Phylogenetic Approach
HPS fitness natural selection phylogenetic
2008/3/31
Kuhn closed the Introduction to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions with what was clearly intended as a rhetorical question: How could history of science fail to be a source of phenomena to which ...
The role of astronomy in the history of science
history of astronomy Poincare measurement of time
2008/3/31
We discuss the extent to which the visibility of the heavens was a necessary condition for the development of science, with particular reference to the measurement of time. Our conclusion is that whil...
Lucretius and the History of Science
Lucretius Epicurus Democritus atom atomism matter materialism
2008/3/31
The essay is to be published in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Lucretius (ed. P. Hardie and S. Gilispie). It provides an overview of the influence of Lucretius on the renaissance, early modern...
Using Representations of Space to Study Early Modern Physical Science: An Example of Philosophy in the Service of History
representation of space conceptual framework historiography
2008/3/31
Most historians of science eagerly acknowledge that the early modern period witnessed a shift from a prevailing Aristotelian, spherical, centered conception of space to a prevailing Cartesian, rectili...