Scientific Realism and the Divide et Impera Strategy: The Ether Saga Revisited.
Using the optical ether as a case study, this article advances four lines of consideration to show why synchronic versions of the divide et impera strategy of scientific realism are unlikely to work. The considerations draw from (a) the nineteenth-century theories of light, (b) the rise of surprisin...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 78; no. 5; pp. 1120 - 1131 |
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| Formato: | Case Study |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2011
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