Article ID: CBB462330933

Underdetermination and Decomposition in Kepler's Astronomia Nova (2015)

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This paper examines the underdetermination between the Ptolemaic, Copernican, and the Tychonic theories of planetary motions and its attempted resolution by Kepler. I argue that past philosophical analyses of the problem of the planetary motions have not adequately grasped a method through which the underdetermination might have been resolved. This method involves a procedure of what I characterize as decomposition and identification. I show that this procedure is used by Kepler in the first half of the Astronomia Nova, where he ultimately claims to have refuted the Ptolemaic theory, thus partially overcoming the underdetermination. Finally, I compare this method with other views of scientific inference such as bootstrapping.

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Authors & Contributors
Carman, Christián Carlos
Gingerich, Owen
Didier Khan
Andrews, Noam
Miyake, Teru
Fauber, J. S.
Concepts
Astronomy
Cosmology
Orbits; planets
Copernicanism
Celestial mechanics
Saturn
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
Renaissance
Early modern
Ancient
Places
Europe
Italy
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