Titlebook: Eppur si muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer; A Collection of Essa Marcus P. Adams,Zvi Biener,Jacqueline A.

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978-3-319-84980-5Springer International Publishing AG 2017

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Eppur si muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer978-3-319-52768-0Series ISSN 1566-659X Series E-ISSN 2215-1974

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,Motion and Proportion in Simon Stevin’s Mechanics, of material instruments. It is shown how his views on the relation between . (speculation) and . (practice) are crucial to correctly understand his famous proof of the law of the inclined plane and his experimental test of the Aristotelian law of free fall. The distance separating . and . is reprod

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,Models of Intelligibility in Galileo’s Mechanical Science,e of what they call .. As they define it, a model of intelligibility (MOI) is a concrete phenomenon that guides scientific understanding of problematic cases. This paper extends Machamer and Woody’s analysis by elaborating the semantic function of MOIs. MOIs are physical embodiments of theoretical r

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,Diagnosing Superstition: Superstition and Piety in Spinoza’s Political Philosophy,its problematic political consequences. I argue that Spinoza’s discussion of superstition in . is an exception. Spinoza connects superstition and piety with the problem of political stability via the notion of obedience, and uses the term “superstitious” to label religious attitudes and practices th

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,Political Philosophy of Science in Nineteenth-Century France: From Comte’s Positivism to Renouvier’arify just what is meant by the term political philosophy of science. This paper finds fourteen different meanings of the term, including both descriptive and normative usages, having to do with the roles of political values in the sciences, the political consequences and significance of the science