COIStories: Explanation and Evidence in the History of Science

DOI10.1162/106361402322288066zbMath1330.01010OpenAlexW2075369320MaRDI QIDQ3467771

Michel Janssen

Publication date: 4 February 2016

Published in: Perspectives on Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1162/106361402322288066

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) General histories, source books (01A05)

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• `Nature is the realisation of the simplest conceivable mathematical ideas': Einstein and the canon of mathematical simplicity
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• From Kepler's laws, so-called, to universal gravitation: empirical factors
• Bayesian personalism, the methodology of scientific research programmes, and Duhem's problem
• Inflationary universe: A possible solution to the horizon and flatness problems

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