Dynamical versus structural explanations in scientific revolutions
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Synthese Dynamical versus structural explanations in scientific revolutions
By briefly reviewing three well-known scientific revolutions in fundamental physics (the discovery of inertia, of special relativity and of general relativity), I claim that problems that were supposed to be crying for a dynamical explanation in the old paradigm ended up receiving a structural explanation in the new one. This claim is meant to give more substance to Kuhn’s view that revolutions...
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عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0039-7857,1573-0964
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-014-0546-7