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Ideological “Assumptions” in Physics: Social Determinations of Internal Structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2022

Aristides Baltas
Aristides Baltas*
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National Technical University, Athens, Greece
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It is certainly not excessively original to maintain that an empirically oriented theory on the structure and on the history of Physics—that is a theory that can and should be put to the test of what physicists, qua physicists, actually do and have been doing and of what they actually come up with—is still badly needed. And it is equally unoriginal to hold that the implementation of such a project cannot but somehow relate to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn, 1962), a work which, to its author's mind at least, was meant to provide some kind of a starting point for such a project. But the fact is that The Structure (as well as all the other work of Kuhn of the same inspiration) has not, in the main, been read that way.

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Part IV. Science Studies
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PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Volume 1986 , Issue 2: Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers 1986 , 1986 , pp. 130 - 151
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Copyright © 1987 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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I would like to thank Paul Humpreys, Vasso Kindi, Peter Machamer, Peter McLaughlin, Nancy Nersessian, Tom Nickles, Marcello Pera and, of course, my commentator Noretta Koertge for their valuable remarks and criticisms.

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