Was Pierre Duhem an Esprit de finesse?
Although Pierre Duhem is well known for his conventionalist outlook and, in particular, for his critique of crucial experiments outlined in his thesis on the empirical indeterminacy of theory, he also contributed to the scholarship on the psychological profiles of scientists by revising Pascal’s fam...
Main Author: | Víctor Manuel Hernández |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2017-06-01
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Series: | Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science |
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Online Access: | http://www.historiographyofscience.org/index.php/transversal/article/view/41/49 |
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