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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Batens, Diderik[Herausgeber]
• Bendegem, Jean Paul[Herausgeber]

Titel

Theory and Experiment : Recent Insights and New Perspectives on Their Relation

Ist Teil von

• Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science : 195

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

1988

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• I. Systematic Analyses -- Do Experiments Depend on Theories or Theories on Experiments? -- On Experimental Questions -- II. The Roles of Experiment: Theory Generation and Theory Testing -- Reconstructing Science: Discovery and Experiment -- The Role of Experiment and Theory in the Development of Nuclear Physics in the Early 1930�́�s -- Empirical Support for the Corpuscular Theory in the Seventeenth Century -- Theory and Experiment in the Early Writings of Johan Baptist Van Helmont -- The Significance of Empirical Evidence for Developments in the Foundations of Decision Theory -- Testing Freudian Hypotheses -- Experiment, Theory Choice, and the Duhem-Quine Problem -- III. The Role of Theoretical Conceptions -- Physical Reality and Closed Theories in Werner Heisenberg�́�s Early Papers -- Experiment and Theory in Ptolemy�́�s Optics -- Newton�́�s and Goethe�́�s Colour Theories �́� Contradictory or Complementary Approaches? -- On the Structure of Physics as
• 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℗Ư other return to simple-minded empiricism in the future