To Save the Phenomena (Duhem - paperback)

Author: Pierre Duhem

ISBN: 9780226169217

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation between physical theory and metaphysics and, more specifically, between astronomy and physics — an issue still of importance today. He critiques the answers given by Greek thought, Arabic science, medieval Christian scholasticism, and, finally, the astronomers of the Renaissance.