Science, Certainty, and Descartes

نقد کتاب Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science

مقالة پیش‌رو به نقد و بررسی کتاب Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science نوشتة دَنیِل گَربِر اختصاص دارد. گربر از برجسته‌ترین پژوهش‌گران فلسفة دوران مدرن و دکارت‌شناس معاصر، کتاب را به‌سال 1980 نوشته و دانشگاه کمبریج آن را منتشر کرده است. این اثر به زبان فرانسوی نیز به چاپ رسیده اما ترجمة فارسی از آن در دست نیست. اثر مجموعه‌ مقالاتی است که نویسنده پیش از این جدا‌ج...

Certainty and Uncertainty in the Practice of Science : Electrons

During the past one hundred years three related elementary particles– the electron, the muon, and the tau–were discovered by very different scientific techniques. The author, who received the Wolf Prize and the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the tau, uses this history to discuss certainty and uncertainty in the practice of science. While the emphasis is on the practice of scientific research,...

Certainty and Uncertainty in the Practice of Science : Electrons , Muons

During the past one hundred years three related elementary particles– the electron, the muon, and the tau–were discovered by very different scientific techniques. The author, who received the Wolf Prize and the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the tau, uses this history to discuss certainty and uncertainty in the practice of science. While the emphasis is on the practice of scientific research,...

The Descartes Rule of Sweeps and the Descartes Signature

The Descartes Rule of Signs, which establishes a bound on the number of positive roots of a polynomial with real coefficients, is extended to polynomials with complex coefficients. The extension is modified to bound the number of complex roots in a given direction on the complex plane, giving rise to the Descartes Signature of a polynomial. The search for the roots of a polynomial is sometimes ...

Adenine Uracil Guanine: An Exploration of Certainty in Science