Pierre Duhem – författare & böcker

To Save the Phenomena

An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

392 kr

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Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation between physical theory and metaphysics and, more specifically, between astronomy and physics–an issue still of importance today. He critiques the answers given by Greek thought, Arabic science, medieval Christian scholasticism, and, finally, the astronomers of the Renaissance.

Medieval Cosmology

Theories of Infinity, Place, Time, Void, and the Plurality of Worlds

AvPierre Duhem

Häftad, Engelska, 1987

397 kr

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These selections from Le système du monde, the classic ten-volume history of the physical sciences written by the great French physicist Pierre Duhem (1861-1916), focus on cosmology, Duhem's greatest interest. By reconsidering the work of such Arab and Christian scholars as Averroes, Avicenna, Gregory of Rimini, Albert of Saxony, Nicole Oresme, Duns Scotus, and William of Occam, Duhem demonstrated the sophistication of medieval science and cosmology.

Del 123 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

Origins of Statics

The Sources of Physical Theory

AvPierre Duhem

Inbunden, Engelska, 1991

3 271 kr

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If ever a major study of the history of science should have acted like a sudden revolution it is this book, published in two volumes in 1905 and 1906 under the title, Les origines de la statique. Paris, the place of publication, and the Librairie scientifique A. Hermann that brought it be enough of a guarantee to prevent a very different out, could seem to outcome. Without prompting anyone, for some years yet, to follow up the revolutionary vistas which it opened up, Les origines de la statique certainly revolutionized Duhem's remaining ten or so years. He became the single-handed discoverer of a vast new land of Western intellectual history. Half a century later it could still be stated about the suddenly proliferating studies in medieval science that they were so many commentariesonDuhem's countlessfindings and observations. Of course, in 1906, Paris and the intellectual world in general were mesmerized by Bergson's Evolution creatrice, freshly off the press. It was meant to bring about a revolution. Bergson challenged head-on the leading dogma of the times, the idea of mechanistic evolution. He did so by noting, among other things, that to speak of vitalism was at least a roundabout recognition of scientific ignorance about a large number of facts concerning life-processes. He held high the idea of a "vital impetus passing through matter," and indeed through all matter or the universe, an impetus thatcould be detected only through intuitiveknowledge.

German Science

AvPierre Duhem

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

245 kr

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Pierre Duhem (1861-1916) is a major influence in twentieth-century thought, a source for many of the ideas of the Vienna circle, Karl Popper, Imre Kalatos, and Thomas S. Kuhn. Yet Duhem's arguments have often been perceived as enigmatic, quirky, muddled, or even disingenuous, because his influence has been greatest outside his native France many of his works have never been translated, and Duhem's readers have mostly been ignorant of the peculiar French cultural and political background during Duhem's lifetime. "German Science" (here translated into English for the first time) is a document of importance for understanding Duhem's better-known works. Duhem's "Aim and Structure of Physical Theory" has been misunderstood because of ignorance of the position set forth in "German Science". At first sight, "German Science" is typical chauvinistic wartime propaganda, thought by the standards of the time and place, Duhem emerges as a moderate and sensitive patriot. The enduring worth of "German Science" lies in its oscillation between the poles of two basic Pascalian premisses: "Principles are intuited" and "Propositions are inferred".The introduction is by Stanley Jaki, author of the biography, "Uneasy Genius: The Life and work of Pierre Duhem".

Système Du Monde

AvPierre Duhem

Inbunden, Franska, 2022

459 kr

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Système Du Monde

AvPierre Duhem

Häftad, Franska, 2022

348 kr

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Del 223 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

Mixture and Chemical Combination

And Related Essays

AvPierre Duhem

AvPierre Duhem

Häftad, Franska, 2016

354 kr

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Le Potentiel Thermodynamique Et Ses Applications À La Mécanique Chimique

Et À l'Étude Des Phénomènes Électriques

AvPierre Duhem

Häftad, Franska, 2017

244 kr

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Les Origines de la statique

Une histoire des sciences revisitée

Prémices philosophiques

Présentées avec une introduction en anglais par S.L. Jaki

AvPierre Duhem

Inbunden, Franska, 1987

2 159 kr

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Del 223 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

Mixture and Chemical Combination

And Related Essays

AvPierre Duhem

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

1 639 kr

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Much of Duhem's work as a professional scientist was closely related to the newly emerging discipline of physical chemistry. The book and associated papers translated here revolve around his concomitant philosophical and historical interests in chemistry-topics largely uncovered by Duhem's writings hitherto available in English. He understood contemporary concerns of chemists to be a development of the ancient dispute over the nature of mixture. Having developed his historical account from distinctions drawn from the atomists and Aristotelians of antiquity, he places his own views of chemical combination squarely within the Aristotelian tradition. Apart from illuminating Duhem's own work, it is of interest to see how the ancient dispute can be related to modern science by someone competent to make such comparisons. The book is lucid and logically stringent without assuming any particular mathematical prerequisites, and provides a masterly statement of an important line of nineteenth century thought which is of interest in its own right as well as providing insight into Duhem's broader philosophical views.