A model of intelligibility in science: Using Galileo's balance as a model for understanding the motion of bodies

&
Science & Education 3 (3):215-244 (1994)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This article has no associated abstract. (fix it)

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1007/bf00540155

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,386

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Science and Religion in Harmony.Deborah B. Haarsma - 2010 - In Melville Y. Stewart (ed.), Science and Religion in Dialogue. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 105--119.
Galileo’s Legacy.Dominic J. Balestra - 2011 - Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85:1-14.
Aspects of aristotelian statics in Galileo's dynamics.J. Groot - 2000 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 31 (4):645-664.
Weber's law modeled by the mathematical description of a Beam balance.Richard G. Lanzara - 1994 - Mathematical Biosciences 122:89-94.
The mathematics of symmetry does not provide an appropriate model for the human understanding of elementary motions.John R. Pani - 2001 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (4):696-697.
EMU and inference: what the explanatory model of scientific understanding ignores.Mark Newman - 2014 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 4 (1):55-74.
Galileo vs Aristotle on free falling bodies.Markus Andreas Schrenk - 2004 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 7 (1):1-11.
Galileo's refutation of the speed-distance law of fall rehabilitated.John D. Norton & Bryan W. Roberts - 2010 - Centaurus 54 (2):148-164.
Gassendi's reintrepretation of the galilean theory of tides.Carla Rita Palmerino - 2004 - Perspectives on Science 12 (2):212-237.
Rehabilitated.John D. Norton - unknown
Philosophy, God, and motion.Simon Oliver - 2005 - New York: Routledge.
Lessons from Galileo: The pragmatic model of shared characteristics of scientific representation.Steffen Ducheyne - 2005 - Philosophia Naturalis 42 (2):213-234.
Galileo, Hobbes, and the book of nature.Douglas Michael Jesseph - 2004 - Perspectives on Science 12 (2):191-211.

Analytics

Added to PP
2014-03-31

Downloads
36 (#432,773)

6 months
3 (#992,474)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author Profiles

Andrea Woody
University of Washington
Peter Machamer
University of Pittsburgh

Citations of this work

Thinking about mechanisms.Peter Machamer, Lindley Darden & Carl F. Craver - 2000 - Philosophy of Science 67 (1):1-25.
Taming theory with thought experiments: Understanding and scientific progress.Michael T. Stuart - 2016 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 58:24-33.

View all 10 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.Thomas S. Kuhn - 1962 - Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Ian Hacking.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.Thomas Samuel Kuhn - 1962 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Otto Neurath.
Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems.Galileo Galilei & Stillman Drake - 1954 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 5 (19):253-256.

View all 8 references / Add more references