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| Campbell, D.T. | Duhem Vs Campbell, D.T. | Sellars I XXVII/XXVIII DuhemVsCampbell: Dispute about the role of models. DuhemVsModels: Once you have found an acceptable theory the model that led to it no longer matters. Models/Hesse: heuristic benefit of models, two types of analogy: positive and negative. 1) positive: refers to properties that the model has in common with the theory, 2) negative: properties where this is not the case. E.g. kinetic gas theory: set of balls in motion. Movement and impact (positive analogy) but not color and hardness (negative analogy). |
Duh I P. Duhem La théorie physique, son objet et sa structure, Paris 1906 German Edition: Ziel und Struktur der physikalischen Theorien Hamburg 1998 |
| Campbell, D.T. | Hacking Vs Campbell, D.T. | I 356 Theory/Experiment/Campbell: (1953): Theories are closed! Theories do not follow from it! It is not possible to derive tests from the main clauses of a theory. Campbell: two layers of sentences: 1) Def hypotheses: statements about a set of ideas that characterize the theory. 2) "Dictionary": "contains statements about the relationship between those ideas and some ideas of another kind. HackingVsCampbell: too linguistically oriented. Nevertheless: basically true. The allegedly close-knit deductive structure is created by speculating. |
Hacking I I. Hacking Representing and Intervening. Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science, Cambridge/New York/Oakleigh 1983 German Edition: Einführung in die Philosophie der Naturwissenschaften Stuttgart 1996 |
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