Einstein's Revolution: A Study in Heuristic

Zahar, Elie

ISBN 10: 0812690672 ISBN 13: 9780812690675

Published by Open Court, U.S.A., 1989

Language: English

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Einstein's Revolution: A Study in Heuristic

Publisher

Open Court, U.S.A.

Publication Date

1989

Language

English

ISBN 10

0812690672

ISBN 13

9780812690675

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Good

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Einstein's Revolution is a textbook on relativity written from a historical-methodological point of view. It can be used as an account of Einstein's physical theory even if the reader has no sympathy with the author's philosophical standpoint, or it can be read for the author's philosophical argument, without the reader having to follow all the details of the physics.

The work challenges a distinction made by the Vienna Circle an still influential today: the distinction between "the context of discovery" and "the context of justification." According to the traditional view, the context of discovery calls for no rational reconstruction and belongs, in effect, to psychology, while only latter is subject to a proper logic of appraisal.

Against these theses, Zahar shows that there is a logic of discovery and that it plays an important role in the appraisal of theories.

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