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 expla...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 194; no. 7; pp. 2307 - 2328 |
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