Article ID: CBB001211049

Poincaré's “Les conceptions nouvelles de la matière” (2012)

unapi

We present a translation of Poincaré's hitherto untranslated essay of 1912: Les conceptions nouvelles de la matière. We distinguish two strands in Poincaré's thinking about atomism. One strand concerns the possibility of deciding the atomic hypothesis. The other strand is concerned with whether the analysis of matter has a finite bound. We show that Poincaré accepted Perrin's investigations as demonstrating the existence of atoms.

...More
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001211049/

Similar Citations

Book Henri Poincaré; David J. Stump; Mélanie Frappier; (2017)
Science and Hypothesis: The Complete Text (/isis/citation/CBB468026402/)

Chapter Heinzmann, Gerhard; (2009)
Hypotheses and Conventions in Poincaré (/isis/citation/CBB001032107/)

Article Bruce D. Popp; (2022)
Early application of kinetic theory of gases to star clusters (/isis/citation/CBB198631506/)

Article Richard Dawid; (2021)
The role of meta-empirical theory assessment in the acceptance of atomism (/isis/citation/CBB703508661/)

Chapter Joy, Lynn S.; (2012)
Dispositional Explanations: Boyle's Problem, Newton's Solution, Hume's Response (/isis/citation/CBB001500350/)

Article Krešimir Molčanov; (2021)
Atomism of Lucretius Seen Through the Eyes of a Modern Physical Chemist (/isis/citation/CBB033317287/)

Article Elise Crull; Katherine Brading; (2017)
Epistemic Structural Realism and Poincaré’s Philosophy of Science (/isis/citation/CBB323921854/)

Chapter Walter, Scott; (2009)
Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré's Defense of Galilei Spacetime (/isis/citation/CBB001032108/)

Book Dalton, John; Pellón González, Inés; (2012)
El atomismo en Química: Un nuevo sistema de Filosofía Química (/isis/citation/CBB001214185/)

Article Folina, Janet; (1994)
Poincaré on mathematics, intuition, and the foundation of science (/isis/citation/CBB000069591/)

Article Videira, Antonio Augusto Passos; (1997)
Poincaré e as hipóteses indiferentes (/isis/citation/CBB000079734/)

Article Sanzo, Ubaldo; (1997)
Contro l'ontologia: Poincaré e le ipotesi scientifiche (/isis/citation/CBB000082218/)

Book C. C. W. Taylor; (1999)
The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus: Fragments (/isis/citation/CBB857701853/)

Book Don S. Lemons; William R. Shanahan; Louis J. Buchholtz; (2022)
On the Trail of Blackbody Radiation: Max Planck and the Physics of his Era (/isis/citation/CBB808300995/)

Article Jeffrey Blevins; (2017)
Absolutism, Relativism, Atomism: The “small theories” of T.S. Eliot (/isis/citation/CBB746165261/)

Book Maas, A. J. P.; (2001)
Atomisme en individualisme: De Amsterdamse natuurkunde tusen 1877 en 1940 (/isis/citation/CBB000101548/)

Chapter Gereon Wolters; (2018)
Mach e la relatività: una storia infinita ambientata a HOPOSia? (/isis/citation/CBB146853924/)

Book George E. Smith; Raghav Seth; (2020)
Brownian Motion and Molecular Reality (/isis/citation/CBB800777900/)

Essay Review Stevens, Graham; (2012)
The Scope of Logical Atomism (/isis/citation/CBB001500070/)

Authors & Contributors
Krešimir Molčanov
Bruce D. Popp
Louis J. Buchholtz
Raghav Seth
William R. Shanahan
Blevins, Jeffrey
Concepts
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Atomism
Philosophy of science
Translations
Physics
Observation
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Ancient
20th century
18th century
Modern
Places
France
Europe
Great Britain
Institutions
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment