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Duhem’s Critical Analysis of Mechanicism and his Defense of a Formal Conception of Theoretical Physics (2017)

Chiappin, José R. N. (Author)
Cássio Costa Laranjeiras (Author)

Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science
Volume: 0
Issue: 2
Pages: 36-53

DOI: 10.24117/2526-2270.2017.i2.05

URI: http://www.historiographyofscience.org/index.php/transversal/article/view/44

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The aim of this paper is to present Duhem’s critical view of the dynamical development of mechanics according to two principles of his theory of the development of physics: the continuous and the rational development of physics. These two principles impose a formal conception of physics that aims at demarcating physics from the metaphysical view on the one hand and the pragmatist/conventionalist view on the other hand. Duhem pursues an intermediary conception of physics, a representational system of empirical laws based upon formal principles. This formal conception of physics will adjust to his idea of scientific progress in the form of a sequence of representational systems as structures of increasing comprehensiveness of empirical laws, which leads him to defend a convergent structural realism pointing to an ideal physical theory.

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