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Item Details
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EINSTEIN'S REVOLUTION
A STUDY IN HEURISTIC |
| By: |
Elie Zahar |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0812690672 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780812690675 |
| Publisher: |
OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO ,U.S. |
| Pub. date: |
28 October, 1999 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
The author applies the methodology of scientific research programmes to the origins of relativity, showing how Eddington, Lorentz, Poincare, Planck and Weyl were driven by mathematical heuristics to make their various contributions to Einstein's programme. |
| Synopsis: |
Einstein's Revolution is a textbook on relativity written from a historical-methodological point of view. It can be used as an account of Einstein's physical theory even if the reader has no sympathy with the author's philosophical standpoint, or it can be read for the author's philosophical argument, without the reader having to follow all the details of the physics. The work challenges a distinction made by the Vienna Circle an still influential today: the distinction between "the context of discovery" and "the context of justification." According to the traditional view, the context of discovery calls for no rational reconstruction and belongs, in effect, to psychology, while only latter is subject to a proper logic of appraisal. Against these theses, Zahar shows that there is a logic of discovery and that it plays an important role in the appraisal of theories. |
| Illustrations: |
1 |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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