Titlebook: Change and Progress in Modern Science; Papers related to an Joseph C. Pitt Book 1985 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1985

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-36395-9 a question of no interest to a philosopher as such. In particular, to hold that the origins of a theory have any relevance for the appraisal of its scientific merits was, according to these philosophers, to commit one form of the ‘genetic fallacy’.

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Reflections on Changecience is a discipline and to desist from the perpetual . that accompanies work in the field. (It goes without saying then that these comments are not themselves to be construed as an ., they are rather an objection to such.) This is not to say that History of Science and Philosophy of Science taken separately are no longer viable.

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Genetics

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The Mechanical Philosophy and its Problems: Mechanical Explanations, Impenetrability, and Perpetual g observation: “As to Descartes my Dear I would with all my heart that I could thinke his Philosophy as true as coherent; but coherency is no argument, for he must be a man of mean parts, that forgets himself so far as to make one deduction contradict another...” (Malloch 1917, p. 13). Most of us wo

Commonplace

Ghosts in the World Machine: A Taxonomy of Leibnizian Forcesunder strain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is the problem of how to account for activity in nature once matter has been stripped of all internal agency and rendered “indifferent to motion”. The ghosts of my title are simply the sources of agency which move the otherwise inert world

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The Notion of Experimental Physics in Early Eighteenth-Century Francealways presented in the guise of extended pieces of mathematical analysis linked to experience through a number of mathematically expressed quantitative functional relationships between physical variables. During the past century and a half, this manner of proceeding has proved immensely successful,

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Some Pragmatic Aspects of the Methodology of Johann Heinrich Lambertce’? Both of these very general questions give me the opportunity to present Lambert’s positions in sufficient breadth as well as to work out some pragmatic elements in his thought. The former appears to me to be especially desirable because Lambert . is virtually unknown in English speaking countri

Hyperplasia

Classical Wage Theory and the Causal Complications of Explaining Distributionled wage fund or wages fund, while Malthusian population theory accounted for the supply of labor. Classical wage theory attempted to explain wages in a given period, to identify those factors which would influence the trend of wages over time and to account for the eventual level of subsistence wag