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

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Autor(a) principal: Chiappin, José R. N.
Data de Publicação: 2017
Outros Autores: Laranjeiras, Cássio Costa
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Transversal (Belo Horizonte)
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/transversal/article/view/14989
Resumo: 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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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Duhem’s Critical Analysis of Mechanicism and his Defense of a Formal Conception of Theoretical Physics
title Duhem’s Critical Analysis of Mechanicism and his Defense of a Formal Conception of Theoretical Physics
spellingShingle Duhem’s Critical Analysis of Mechanicism and his Defense of a Formal Conception of Theoretical Physics
Chiappin, José R. N.
Pierre Duhem
Mechanicism
Theoretical Physics
Synthetical/Analytical Method
Structural Realism
title_short Duhem’s Critical Analysis of Mechanicism and his Defense of a Formal Conception of Theoretical Physics
title_full Duhem’s Critical Analysis of Mechanicism and his Defense of a Formal Conception of Theoretical Physics
title_fullStr Duhem’s Critical Analysis of Mechanicism and his Defense of a Formal Conception of Theoretical Physics
title_full_unstemmed Duhem’s Critical Analysis of Mechanicism and his Defense of a Formal Conception of Theoretical Physics
title_sort Duhem’s Critical Analysis of Mechanicism and his Defense of a Formal Conception of Theoretical Physics
author Chiappin, José R. N.
author_facet Chiappin, José R. N.
Laranjeiras, Cássio Costa
author_role author
author2 Laranjeiras, Cássio Costa
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Chiappin, José R. N.
Laranjeiras, Cássio Costa
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Pierre Duhem
Mechanicism
Theoretical Physics
Synthetical/Analytical Method
Structural Realism
topic Pierre Duhem
Mechanicism
Theoretical Physics
Synthetical/Analytical Method
Structural Realism
description 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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