Luka Vinck
Luka Vinck
The Einstein-Bergson debate on the nature of time is historically regarded as a pivotal moment in the rift between the humanities and natural sciences. Bergson was generally conceived to have lost the debate, although opinions of philosophe...
A phenomenological approach to quantum mechanics - The London-Bauer-French interpretation [0.03%]
量子力学的现象学方法——伦敦-鲍尔-法国诠释
Philipp Berghofer,Harald Wiltsche
Philipp Berghofer
'The tensor calculus knows physics better than the physicist': Bachelard on the role of 'Covariant Differentiation' in Relativity theory [0.03%]
“张量演算比物理学家更了解物理学”——巴谢拉尔论相对性理论中的“协变微分”的作用
Marco Giovanelli
Marco Giovanelli
Gaston Bachelard's La valeur inductive de la relativité is arguably his most overlooked work. This paper argues that, nevertheless, it represents a noteworthy contribution to the early history of the philosophical interpretation of general...
Seeing Duhem's bon sens through Dewey's logic. Judgment as the central function of knowing [0.03%]
从杜威的逻辑看狄尔泰的务实主义：判断作为认知的核心功能
Godfrey Guillaumin,Miguel Agustín Aguilar Sandoval
Godfrey Guillaumin
In the early 20th century, Pierre Duhem and John Dewey independently addressed the logical difficulties in testing hypotheses. Duhem pointed out that experimental testing requires assumptions and theories in addition to the hypothesis to be...
Steffen Ducheyne,Casper Dewit
Steffen Ducheyne
This essay investigates how Nicolas Hartsoeker (1656-1725) engaged with and critiqued Isaac Newton's (1647-1727) Principia. Building on earlier work, this paper offers a comprehensive analysis of Hartsoeker's sustained opposition to Newton'...
Josh Hunt
Josh Hunt
The symmetries of the humble hydrogen atom illustrate the importance of graded modal reasoning in science. By seemingly functioning as meta-laws, these symmetry principles create pressure for any philosophical account of nomological reasoni...
Patrick J Connolly
Patrick J Connolly
Isaac Newton's comments to Richard Bentley on the nature of gravitation and its relationship to matter have been the subject of prolonged interpretative debate. This paper carefully examines the larger context of the epistolary exchange bet...
Large language models for history, philosophy, and sociology of science: Interpretive uses, methodological challenges, and critical perspectives [0.03%]
语言大模型在科学史、哲学和 sociology 中的解释性应用、方法论挑战及批判性视角
Arno Simons,Michael Zichert,Adrian Wüthrich
Arno Simons
This paper examines large language models (LLMs) as research tools in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS). Because LLMs can work directly with heterogeneous, unstructured texts and capture meaning-relevant associations ...
Tushar Menon
Tushar Menon
Motivated by the question about whether we should be realists about dark matter, I propose a new articulation of the debate between the scientific realist and anti-realist. I defend three claims. First, that the debate should be articulated...
Typing Physics: The essential role of typists in intra-scientific communication [0.03%]
书写物理——科研交流中打字员的不可或缺作用
India Bhalla-Ladd
India Bhalla-Ladd
I present an analysis of the changes to intra-scientific communication in postwar American physics. In particular, I focus on a case study of the technical typists who worked for the American Institute of Physics (AIP) journals, especially ...