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Duhem and holism
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ISBN: 1009004654 1009020145 100902034X 1009001337 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The holistic thesis developed by Pierre Duhem challenges the idea that our evidence can conclusively falsify a theory. Given that no scientific theory is tested in isolation, a negative experiment can always be attributed to components other than the theory we test - to the auxiliary hypotheses and background assumptions. How do scientists decide whether the experimental result undermines the theory or points at an error in the underlying assumptions? Duhem argues that we cannot offer a rule that directs when the scientist should employ a radical or conservative strategy in light of a negative result, and ultimately they will appeal to their intuition. More recently philosophers have offered a number of strategies of how to locate error and justify the abandonment of a theory or an auxiliary hypothesis. This Element analyses Duhem's response to holism and subsequent accounts of how the problem can be resolved.

Uneasy genius : the life and work of Pierre Duhem
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ISBN: 9024728975 9789024728978 Year: 1984 Volume: 100 Publisher: The Hague Boston Lancaster Nijhoff

Pierre Duhem : philosophy and history in the work of a believing physicist
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ISBN: 0812691601 9780812691603 Year: 1991 Publisher: La Salle Open court


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Can theories be refuted ? : Essays on the Duhem-Quine thesis.
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ISBN: 9027706298 9027706301 9401018634 9789027706300 9789027706294 Year: 1976 Volume: 81 Publisher: Dordrecht Reidel


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Beyond the contingent : epistemological authority, a Pascalian revival, and the religious imagination in Third Republic France
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ISBN: 9781608993703 1608993701 Year: 2011 Publisher: Eugene (Or.): Pickwick,

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In light of the contemporary struggle between science and faith, Kathleen Mulhern's timely exploration of late nineteenth-century neo-Pascalian thought both recovers a lost perspective on the "war between science and religion" and offers a fruitful angle of study for twenty-first-century reflection. As the science vs. religion rancor reached its early fury at the turn of the century, many devout French Catholic intellectuals struggled with the increasingly dogmatic spirit in both the Roman Catholic Church and the scientific community. The dominant ideology of scientism within the intellectual establishment of the Third Republic (1870-1940) collided with a growing authoritarianism within the Church, expressed in the 1893 papal encyclical, Providentissimus. Physicist Pierre Duhem, philosopher Maurice Blondel, and priest Lucien Laberthonnière rejected the Roman Catholic Church's Thomistic methodology and sought intellectual inspiration instead in the philosophy of seventeenth-century scientist, mathematician, philosopher, and Christian apologist Blaise Pascal. These neo-Pascalians offered an alternative to the adversarial relationship between modern culture and orthodox Catholic faith, but their ideas came to an abrupt and bitter conclusion when they ran afoul of Church authority. The narrative and contribution of the neo-Pascalians offers many insights and lessons that could helpfully inform the contemporary debates surrounding the dialogue between science and religion.

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Religion and science. --- Church and state --- Christianity and state --- Separation of church and state --- State and church --- State, The --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science --- Science and religion --- History --- Religious aspects --- Pascal, Blaise, --- Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie, --- Blondel, Maurice, --- Laberthonnière, Lucien, --- Blondel, M. --- Di-ang, --- Di-ang, Pʻi-ai-erh, --- Duhem, P. --- Duhem, Pierre, --- دوهيم، بيار ماري، --- Pascal, Blaise --- Montaltius, Ludovicus --- de Montalte, Louis --- Catholic Church --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- France --- 27 <44> "1870/1914" --- 27 <44> "1870/1914" Histoire de l'Eglise--Frankrijk--?"1870/1914" --- 27 <44> "1870/1914" Kerkgeschiedenis--Frankrijk--?"1870/1914" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Frankrijk--?"1870/1914" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Frankrijk--?"1870/1914" --- Laberthonnière, Lucien --- Religion and science --- Laberthonnière, Lucien, --- Laberthonnière, Lucien. --- Blondel, Maurizio --- Montalte, Louis de, --- Pasukaru, Burēzu, --- Paskalʹ, Blėz, --- Pascal, Biagio, --- Pʻa-ssu-kʻa-erh, Pu-lai-tzu, --- Pa-ssu-ka, Pa-ssu-chia-erh, --- Pa-ssu-chʻieh-erh, Pa-ssu-chʻia, --- Ppasŭkkal, --- Montaltius, Ludovicus, --- פסקל, בלז --- פסקל, ב., --- Laberthonnière, Lucien, - 1860-1932 --- Pascal, Blaise, - 1623-1662 --- Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie, - 1861-1916 --- Blondel, Maurice, - 1861-1949 --- 파스칼

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