Studying scientific thought experiments in their context: Albert Einstein and electromagnetic induction
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Albert Einstein: Opportunity and Perception∗
The year 1905 has been called Albert Einstein’s “Annus Mirabilis.” It was during that year that he caused revolutionary changes in man’s primordial concepts about the physical world: space, time, energy, light and matter. How could a 26-year-old clerk, previously unknown, cause such profound conceptual changes, and thereby open the door to the era of modern scientific technological world? No on...
متن کاملAlbert Einstein, 1879-1955
Semana Semana de la de la Matem Matem á á tica tica Departamento Departamento de de Matem Matemá ática tica FCEyN FCEyN – – UBA UBA
متن کاملAlbert Einstein and Empirical Software
s scientists, we apply scientific investigative techniques to gain more understanding of what makes software “good” and how to make software well. Often, we adapt investigative techniques from other disciplines to define measures that make sense in the business, technical, and social contexts we use for decision making. However, sometimes we can learn as much from another discipline’s failures ...
متن کاملThought Experiments in Scientific Discovery: What Emergent Mental Capabilities Underlie their Efficacy?
Examples from Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Einstein and others suggest that fundamental laws of physics were—or, at least, could have been—discovered by experiments performed not in the physical world but only in the mind. Though problematic for a strict empiricist, this mode of discovery may have become possible, in part, through the evolutionary emergence in humans of deeply internalized impl...
متن کاملThe Role of Imagistic Simulation in Scientific Thought Experiments
Interest in thought experiments (TEs) derives from the paradox: "How can findings that carry conviction result from a new experiment conducted entirely within the head?" Historical studies have established the importance of TEs in science but have proposed disparate hypotheses concerning the source of knowledge in TEs, ranging from empiricist to rationalist accounts. This article analyzes TEs i...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1355-2198
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.04.002