کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1160232 1490333 2015 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Scientific pluralism and the Chemical Revolution
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
کثرت گرایی علمی و انقلاب شیمی
کلمات کلیدی
انقلاب شیمیایی؛ کثرت گرایی علمی؛ جامعه‌شناسی علم؛ تاریخ و فلسفه علم یکپارچه. Hasok چانگ
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر تاریخ
چکیده انگلیسی

In a number of papers and in his recent book, Is Water H2O? Evidence, Realism, Pluralism (2012), Hasok Chang has argued that the correct interpretation of the Chemical Revolution provides a strong case for the view that progress in science is served by maintaining several incommensurable “systems of practice” in the same discipline, and concerning the same region of nature. This paper is a critical discussion of Chang's reading of the Chemical Revolution. It seeks to establish, first, that Chang's assessment of Lavoisier's and Priestley's work and character follows the phlogistonists' “actors' sociology”; second, that Chang simplifies late-eighteenth-century chemical debates by reducing them to an alleged conflict between two systems of practice; third, that Chang's evidence for a slow transition from phlogistonist theory to oxygen theory is not strong; and fourth, that he is wrong to assume that chemists at the time did not have overwhelming good reasons to favour Lavoisier's over the phlogistonists' views.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A - Volume 49, February 2015, Pages 69–79
نویسندگان
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