Scrutinizing Science

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• I.
• Testing Theories of Scientific Change.
• II: Case Studies.
• 1. 17Th-Century Mechanics.
• Galileo’s Copernicanism and the Acceptability of Guiding Assumptions.
• Newton’s Rejection of the Mechanical AEther: Empirical Difficulties and Guiding Assumptions.
• The Vortex Theory of Motion, 1687–1713: Empirical Difficulties and Guiding Assumptions.
• 2. Chemistry from the 18th to the 20th Centuries.
• The Chemical Revolution: Shifts in Guiding Assumptions.
• Molecular Geometry in 19th-century France: Shifts in Guiding Assumptions.
• Kekulé’s Benzene Theory and the Appraisal of Scientific Theories.
• Fermentation Theory: Empirical Difficulties and Guiding Assumptions.
• The Polywater Episode and the Appraisal of Theories.
• 3. 19Th-Century Physics.
• Ampère’s Electrodynamics and the Acceptability of Guiding Assumptions.
• Brownian Motion and the Appraisal of Theories.
• The Michelson — Morley Experiment and the Appraisal of Theories.
• 4. Recent Geological Theory.
• Plate Tectonics and Inter-Theory Relations.
• The Theory of an Expanding Earth and the Acceptability of Guiding Assumptions.
• 5. 20th-Century Physics.
• Planck’s Quantum Crisis and Shifts in Guiding Assumptions.
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and the Acceptability of Guiding Assumptions.
• Electroweak Unification and the Appraisal of Theories.
• Index of Thesis Citations and.