Name: Particles and Waves: Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science (en Inglés)
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Author: Peter Achinstein
ISBN: 9780195067552

portada Particles and Waves: Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Autor

Peter Achinstein

Año

1991

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

352

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

019506755x

ISBN13

9780195067552

Categorías

Filosofía occidental en el xix

Particles and Waves: Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science (en Inglés)

Peter Achinstein (Autor) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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This volume brings together eleven essays by the distinguished philosopher of science, Peter Achinstein. The unifying theme is the nature of the philosophical problems surrounding the postulation of unobservable entities such as light waves, molecules, and electrons. How, if at all, is it possible to confirm scientific hypotheses about "unobservables"? Achinstein examines this question as it arose in actual scientific practice in three nineteenth-century episodes: the debate between particle and wave theorists of light, Maxwell's kinetic theory of gases, and J.J. Thomson's discovery of the electron. The book contains three parts, each devoted to one of these topics, beginning with an essay presenting the historical background of the episode and an introduction to the philosophical issues. There is an illuminating evaluation of various scientific methodologies, including hypothetico-deductivism, inductivism, and the method of independent warrant which combines features of the first two. Achinstein assesses the philosophical validity of both nineteenth-century and modern answers to questions about unobservables, and presents and defends his own solutions.