Article ID: CBB541274680

Duhem’s Analysis of Newtonian Method and the Logical Priority of Physics over Metaphysics (2017)

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This article offers a discussion of Duhemian analysis of Newton's method in the Principia considering both the traditional response to this analysis (Popper et alii) and the more recent ones (Harper et alii).  It is argued that in General Scholium to the Principia, Newton is not advocating what Duhem suggests in his best-known criticism, but he is proposing something very close to the establishment of a logical priority of physics over metaphysics, a familiar thesis defended by the French physicist himself.

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Authors & Contributors
Kochiras, Hylarie
Miller, David Marshall
Harper, William L.
Cássio Costa Laranjeiras
Fábio Rodrigo Leite
Giannini, Giulia
Concepts
Gravitation
Physics
Metaphysics
Methodology of science; scientific method
Philosophy of science
Celestial mechanics
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
Places
Italy
Great Britain
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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