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| adam_text | Contents
ι
Introduction
ι
1.1 Who Cares about Inconsistency Anyway? I
1.2
Inconsistency in Science: Contemporary Debates
6
1
.2.
ι
Logic-dnven versus content-driven
6
1.2.2
Reconstructing/representing inconsistencies
io
1-3
Going Deeper
12
2
Concepts and Method
17
2.1
Introduction
17
2.2
What is Inconsistency?
17
2.3
Theories of Theories: Syntactic and Semantic
19
2.4
The Substrate of Science
22
2.5
Concepts and Contents of Theones
25
2.6
A New Method: Theory Elimmativism
28
2.7
Back to Inconsistency
32
2.8
Overview
35
3
Bohr s Theory of the Atom
39
3.1
Introduction
39
3.2
Three Inconsistency Claims
42
3.2.1
Discrete energy states
43
3.2.2
Quantum transitions
46
3.2.3
Non-emission of radiation
48
3.2.3.1
Doxastic commitment
49
3.2.3.2
Inferential confidence
52
3.3
Inconsistencies in the Later Theory
58
3.3.1
Spectral line intensities
59
3.3.2
The adiabatic principle
64
3.4
Conclusion
71
4
Classical Electrodynamics
76
4.1
Introduction
76
4.2
Features of the Theory
76
CONTENTS
4.3 Fnsch
s
Inconsistency
Claim 82
4.4
Defending
Fnsch 84
4.4.1
МиДег
85
4.4.2
Bělot
86
4.5
The Significance of the Fnsch Inconsistency
99
4.6
Conclusion
105
5
Newtonian Cosmology no
5.1
Introduction no
5.2
The Concept Newtonian Cosmology III
5.3
How was Newtonian Cosmology Inconsistent?
113
5.3.1
A contradiction of forces
114
5.3.1.1 . .
.using Newton s law of gravitation?
114
5.3.1.2 ...
using Poisson s equation?
118
5.3.1.3 . .
.reasoning from symmetry
12.0
5.3.2
An Indeterminacy Contradiction
124
5.3.2.1 . . .
using Newton s law of gravitation
125
5.3.2.2 . . .
from summing the potential
ψ
128
5.3.2.3 , . .
using Poisson s equation
13°
5.4
Why weren t the Inconsistencies Noticed?
їЗ2
5-4.1
Because the nght question wasn t asked
13З
5.4.2
Because of confusion about non-convergent
senes
137
5.5
Conclusion I42
6
The Early Calculus
146
6.1
Introduction
146
6.2
Berkeley s Criticism
147
Ó.3
The Algorithmic Level
150
6.4
The Level of Justification
*5б
6.4-1
Newton
158
6.4.2
Leibniz
165
6.4.3
The English
169
6.4.4
The French
174
6.5
As if Inconsistency
182
6.6
Conclusion
188
7
Further Examples
7.1
Introduction
7.2
Aristotle s Theory of Motion
192
CONTENTS Xl
7.3 Olbers Paradox 196
7.4
Classical Electrons
199
7.4.1
Reconstruction of the inconsistency
201
7.4.2
What lessons?
203
7.5
Kirchhoff s Theory of Diffraction
208
7.5.1
Reconstruction of the inconsistency
209
7.5.2
What lessons?
212
7.6
Conclusion
216
8
Conclusion
218
8.1
Introduction
218
8.2
Lessons from the Case Studies
219
8.2.1
Asking questions
219
8.2.2
Inconsistency versus implausibility
226
8.2.3
The role of as if reasoning
230
8.2.4
Getting from inconsistency to contradiction
233
8.2.5
The logic-driven/content-dnven debate
238
8.3
Theory Eliminativism and the Method of Philosophy of
Science
242
8.4
Concluding Thoughts
252
Bibliography
254
Index
269
PETER
VI
С
KE
R S
completed his
undergraduate BSc in IVIathematics and
Philosophy at the University of York in
2003,
This was followed by an MA in History and
Philosophy of Science at the University of
Leeds, completed in
2005,
and a PhD in the
history and philosophy of science, also at the
University of Leeds in
2009.
Following a year
teaching at Leeds, Vickers spent a year as
a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for
Philosophy of Science at the University
of Pittsburgh, before returning to the UK
in
2011
as a Lecturer in Philosophy at
Durham University
In recent years philosophers of science have urged that many scientific theories are
extremely useful and successful despite being internally inconsistent- Via an
investigation of eight alleged inconsistent theories in the history of science, Peter
Vickers urges that this view is at best overly simplistic. IVIost of these cases can only
be described as examples of inconsistent science if we employ reconstructions of
science which depart from the real (history of) science to an unacceptable degree.
And where we do find genuine inconsistency he argues that the nature of
—
and
correct response to
---
the inconsistency differs dramatically depending on the details
of the science in question. Thus we are warned against making overly general claims
about science : what are all called theories* in the history of science are actually
significantly different entities, which work in significantly different ways and react
to inconsistency in different ways. Vickers argues that the traditional goal of philosophy
to make substantial, fully general claims about how science works is misguided,
and can be significantly circumvented if we re-frame our debates such that reference
to theories is eliminated. In this way one is not tempted to think of the history of
science as a history of instances of the same kind
—
theory
—
about which one could
hope to say something substantial and general. And in addition eliminating theory
means that we avoid fruitless debates about the real nature and content of theories .
Vickers account leads to a particularist philosophy of science, where the reader is
urged to appreciate the often dramatic differences between the different inconsistencies
in science which have been identified.
Jacket image: Page from Leibniz s
Ľ)e
Quadratura Arìthmetica.
Gottfried
Wilhelm
Leibniz
Bibliothek:
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