Experiment versus mechanical philosophy in the work of Robert Boyle: A reply to Anstey and Pyle
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 33 (1):187-193 (2002)
| Abstract | We can distinguish 'mechanical' in the strict sense of the mechanical philosophers from 'mechanical' in the common sense. My claim is that Boyle's experimental science owed nothing to, and offered no support for, the mechanical philosophy in the strict sense. The attempts by my critics to undermine my case involve their interpreting 'mechanical' in something like the common sense. I certainly accept that Boyle's experimental science was productively informed by mechanical analogies, where 'mechanical' is interpreted in a common sense. But this leaves my original claim untouched and, in the main, unchallenged. | |||||||||
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