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  1. Space and Geometry.Henri Poincaré - forthcoming - Foundations of Science.
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  2. An Okapi Hypothesis: Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Professional Expert in American Mathematics.Jemma Lorenat - 2022 - Isis 113 (1):85-107.
    Open Court began publishingThe Monistin 1890 as a journal“devotedto the philosophy of science”that regularly included mathematics. The audiencewas understood to be“cultured people who have not a technical mathematicaltraining”but nevertheless“have a mathematical penchant.”With these constraints,the mathematical content varied from recreations to logical foundations, but every-one had something to say about non-Euclidean geometry, in debates that rangedfrom psychology to semantics. The focus in this essay is on the contested value ofmathematical expertise in legitimating what should be considered as mathematics.While some mathematicians urgedThe (...)
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  3. Reflections on the Reception of Jean Perrin’s Experiments by His Contemporaries.Milena Ivanova - 2020 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 10 (1):219-224.
  4. Science, Hypothesis, and Hierarchy.Janet Folina - 2019 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 9 (2):388-406.
  5. Poincaré on the Foundations of Arithmetic and Geometry. Part 2: Intuition and Unity in Mathematics.Katherine Dunlop - 2017 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 7 (1):88-107.
    Part 1 of this article exposed a tension between Poincaré’s views of arithmetic and geometry and argued that it could not be resolved by taking geometry to depend on arithmetic. Part 2 aims to resolve the tension by supposing not merely that intuition’s role is to justify induction on the natural numbers but rather that it also functions to acquaint us with the unity of orders and structures and show practices to fit or harmonize with experience. I argue that in (...)
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  6. Poincaré’s aesthetics of science.Milena Ivanova - 2017 - Synthese 194 (7):2581-2594.
    This paper offers a systematic analysis of Poincaré’s understanding of beauty in science. In particular, the paper examines the epistemic significance Poincaré attributes to aesthetic judgement by reconstructing and analysing his arguments on simplicity and unity in science. I offer a consistent reconstruction of Poincaré’s account and show that for Poincaré simplicity and unity are regulative principles, linked to the aim of science—that of achieving understanding of how phenomena relate. I show how Poincaré’s account of beauty in science can be (...)
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  7. Poincaré on the Foundations of Arithmetic and Geometry. Part 1: Against “Dependence-Hierarchy” Interpretations.Katherine Dunlop - 2016 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 6 (2):274-308.
    The main goal of part 1 is to challenge the widely held view that Poincaré orders the sciences in a hierarchy of dependence, such that all others presuppose arithmetic. Commentators have suggested that the intuition that grounds the use of induction in arithmetic also underlies the conception of a continuum, that the consistency of geometrical axioms must be proved through arithmetical induction, and that arithmetical induction licenses the supposition that certain operations form a group. I criticize each of these readings. (...)
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  8. Les Sciences Et Les Humanits.Henri Poincar - 2016 - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
    " Parmi les hommes qui ont, tous utilement, mais plus ou moins brillamment servi la science, les uns avaient reçu dans leur jeunesse une éducation classique solide, parfois raffinée, tandis que les autres n'avaient eu qu'une formation littéraire hâtive, incomplète et sommaire. On serait tenté d'en conclure que l'étude des lettres est inutile aux savants, puisque beaucoup d'entre eux ont pu s'en passer. Ce serait aller un peu vite en besogne. Est-il certain qu'on ne saurait faire de différence entre les (...)
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  9. Introduction: FORUM: POINCARÉ RECONSIDERED, ONE HUNDRED YEARS AFTERWARDS.Sahotra Sarkar - 2016 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 6 (2):239-241.
  10. A Life in Science, Philosophy, and the Public Domain: Three Biographies of PoincaréJeremy J. Gray. Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xii+592. $35.00/£24.95 .Ferdinand Verhulst. Henri Poincaré: Impatient Genius. New York: Springer, 2012. Pp. xi+260. $49.95 ; $39.95 .Jean-Marc Ginoux and Christian Gerini. 2012. Henri Poincaré: Une biographie au quotidien. Paris: Ellipses, 2012. Pp. iv+298. €24.00 . [Henri Poincaré: A Biography through the Daily Papers. Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. Pp. 260. $29.00 ; $22.00 .]. [REVIEW]David J. Stump - 2016 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 6 (2):309-318.
  11. Poincaré’s Classification of Hypotheses and Their Role in Natural Science.María de Paz - 2015 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29 (4):369-382.
    In the introduction to his famous book, La Science et l’hypothèse, Poincaré remarks on the necessary role and legitimacy of hypotheses. He establishes a triple classification of hypotheses, dividing them into verifiable, useful, and apparent. However, in chapter 9, entitled ‘Les hypothèses en physique’, he gives a slightly different triadic classification: natural hypotheses, indifferent hypotheses, and real generalizations. The origin of this second classification is a lecture given at the International Congress of Physics, Paris, 1900. What are the similarities and (...)
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  12. Conventionalism about what? Where Duhem and Poincaré part ways.Milena Ivanova - 2015 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 54:80-89.
    This paper examines whether, and in what contexts, Duhem’s and Poincaré’s views can be regarded as conventionalist or structural realist. After analysing the three different contexts in which conventionalism is attributed to them – in the context of the aim of science, the underdetermination problem and the epistemological status of certain principles – I show that neither Duhem’s nor Poincaré’s arguments can be regarded as conventionalist. I argue that Duhem and Poincaré offer different solutions to the problem of theory choice, (...)
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  13. Conventionalism, structuralism and neo-Kantianism in Poincaré’s philosophy of science.Milena Ivanova - 2015 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 52 (Part B):114-122.
    Poincaré is well known for his conventionalism and structuralism. However, the relationship between these two theses and their place in Poincaré׳s epistemology of science remain puzzling. In this paper I show the scope of Poincaré׳s conventionalism and its position in Poincaré׳s hierarchical approach to scientific theories. I argue that for Poincaré scientific knowledge is relational and made possible by synthetic a priori, empirical and conventional elements, which, however, are not chosen arbitrarily. By examining his geometric conventionalism, his hierarchical account of (...)
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  14. María de Paz and Robert DiSalle, eds. Poincaré, Philosopher of Science. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014. Pp. xiv+191. $179.00. [REVIEW]Marij van Strien - 2015 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 5 (1):183-187.
  15. Correspondance Dingler–Poincaré.Hugo Dingler, Henri Poincaré & Oliver Schlaudt - 2014 - Philosophia Scientiae 18:63-66.
    Nous reproduisons ici, avec l’aimable autorisation de la Hofbibliothek Aschaffenburg (Allemagne), la courte correspondance inédite entre Dingler et Henri Poincaré. Cette correspondance, conservée aux Archives Dingler dans la Hofbibliothek Aschaffenburg (et mentionnée dans le catalogue du Nachlass de Dingler [Wolters & Schroeder-Heister 1979]), consiste en trois documents : un brouillon en allemand de la main de Dingler, sa traduction française par une autre plume, mais avec des corrections ef...
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  16. (1 other version)Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography. [REVIEW]Tilman Sauer - 2014 - Isis 105 (1):229-231.
  17. Did Perrin’s Experiments Convert Poincaré to Scientific Realism?Milena Ivanova - 2013 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 3 (1):1-19.
    In this paper I argue that Poincaré’s acceptance of the atom does not indicate a shift from instrumentalism to scientific realism. I examine the implications of Poincaré’s acceptance of the existence of the atom for our current understanding of his philosophy of science. Specifically, how can we understand Poincaré’s acceptance of the atom in structural realist terms? I examine his 1912 paper carefully and suggest that it does not entail scientific realism in the sense of acceptance of the fundamental existence (...)
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  18. As novas concepções da matéria.Henri Poincaré - 2013 - Kairos: Revista de Filosofia and Ciência 7:187-197.
    Poincaré tries to tackle the question "Can science sway us into materialism?". In other words, he analyzes if science - in particular Physics - and its theories are dependent on a materialistic ontological view of the world. His final answer appears to be "no". However, in order to reach this conclusion he resorts to a brief history of Physics, providing an insightful account on the evolution of the concept of atom from Democritus to the, then, recent discoveries on the composition (...)
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  19. A reformulação do conceito de predicatividade segundo Poincaré.Jacintho Del Vecchio Junior - 2013 - Scientiae Studia 11 (2):391-416.
  20. Michael Friedman and Alfred Nordmann, eds. The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. vi+370. $45.00. [REVIEW]Gary Hatfield - 2012 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 2 (1):172-177.
    Review of: Michael Friedman and Alfred Nordmann, eds. The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. vi+370. $45.00 (cloth).
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  21. Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann, eds. The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009. Pp. viii+376. $109.00 (cloth). [REVIEW]David J. Stump - 2011 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 1 (1):129-132.
  22. Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré’s Defense of Galilei Spacetime.Scott Walter - 2009 - In Michael Heidelberger & Gregor Schiemann (eds.), The Significance of the Hypothetical in Natural Science. De Gruyter. pp. 193-220.
    According to the conventionalist doctrine of space elaborated by the French philosopher-scientist Henri Poincaré in the 1890s, the geometry of physical space is a matter of definition, not of fact. Poincaré's Hertz-inspired view of the role of hypothesis in science guided his interpretation of the theory of relativity (1905), which he found to be in violation of the axiom of free mobility of invariable solids. In a quixotic effort to save the Euclidean geometry that relied on this axiom, Poincaré extended (...)
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  23. Henri Poincaré: The MoviePhilippe Thomine . Tout est relatif, Monsieur Poincaré! Produced by Vidéoscop–Université Nancy 2, Archives Henri Poincaré, UMR 7117, CNRS, 2005. [REVIEW]Yves Gingras - 2007 - Isis 98 (2):366-372.
  24. A Comparison of Two Cultural Approaches to Mathematics.Loren Graham & Jean‐Michel Kantor - 2006 - Isis 97 (1):56-74.
    Many people would like to know where scientific ideas come from and how they arise. In the case of mathematics, new ideas often come in the form of new “mathematical objects”: groups, vector spaces, sets, etc. Some people think these new objects are invented, others that they are discovered. By exploring the birth of descriptive set theory in France and Russia in the period 1890–1930 we show that the leading French mathematicians worked within a rational, secular worldview that made them (...)
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  25. Peter Galison. Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time. 389 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003. $23.95. [REVIEW]Dominique Pestre - 2005 - Isis 96 (4):664-665.
  26. The Mystery of the Einstein–Poincaré Connection.Olivier Darrigol - 2004 - Isis 95 (4):614-626.
    This essay discusses attempts that have been made to explain the striking similarities between two theories propounded in 1905 by Albert Einstein and Henri Poincaré without any mutual reference.
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  27. El convencionalismo en Pierre Duhem y Henri Poincaré.R. Hernández - 2002 - Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica 40 (100):53-62.
  28. Farewell to certitude: Einstein's novelty on induction and deduction, fallibilism.Avshalom M. Adam - 2000 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 31 (1):19-37.
    In the late 19th century great changes in theories of light and electricity were in direct conflict with certitude, the view that scientific knowledge is infallible. What is, then, the epistemic status of scientific theory? To resolve this issue Duhem and Poincaré proposed images of fallible knowledge, Instrumentalism and Conventionalism, respectively. Only in 1919–1922, after Einstein's relativity was published, he offered arguments to support Fallibilism, the view that certainty cannot be achieved in science. Though Einstein did not consider Duhem's Instrumentalism, (...)
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  29. Convenzione e razionalita scientifica in Henri Poincare. Mirella Fortino.Jean Mawhin - 1999 - Isis 90 (3):613-614.
  30. Poincare and the Three-Body Problem by June Barrow-Green. [REVIEW]Jean Mawhin - 1998 - Isis 89:345-346.
  31. Esperienza e ragione nel convenzionalismo geometrico di Henri Poincaré.M. Fortino - 1996 - Epistemologia 19 (1):51-84.
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  32. Scientific Method: A Historical and Philosophical Introduction.Barry Gower - 1996 - New York: Routledge.
    The central theme running throughout this outstanding new survey is the nature of the philosophical debate created by modern science's foundation in experimental and mathematical method. More recently, recognition that reasoning in science is probabilistic generated intense debate about whether and how it should be constrained so as to ensure the practical certainty of the conclusions drawn. These debates brought to light issues of a philosophical nature which form the core of many scientific controversies today. _Scientific Method: A Historical and (...)
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  33. “A-Priorism” in Poincaré, Eddington & Milne.Mogens Wegener - 1996 - Philosophia Scientiae 1 (S1):81-103.
  34. New Methods of Celestial Mechanics by Henri Poincare; Daniel L. Goroff. [REVIEW]Curtis Wilson - 1994 - Isis 85:539-540.
  35. Poincaré against the logicians.Michael Detlefsen - 1992 - Synthese 90 (3):349 - 378.
    Poincaré was a persistent critic of logicism. Unlike most critics of logicism, however, he did not focus his attention on the basic laws of the logicists or the question of their genuinely logical status. Instead, he directed his remarks against the place accorded to logical inference in the logicist's conception of mathematical proof. Following Leibniz, traditional logicist dogma (and this is explicit in Frege) has held that reasoning or inference is everywhere the same — that there are no principles of (...)
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  36. Linear Differential Equations and Group Theory from Riemann to PoincaréJeremy Gray.David Rowe - 1988 - Isis 79 (1):151-152.
  37. Geschichte des Mannigfaltigkeitsbegriffs von Riemann bis Poincare. Erhard Scholz.Dale Johnson - 1983 - Isis 74 (4):591-592.
  38. Philosophy of Geometry from Riemann to Poincaré. [REVIEW]S. L. - 1982 - Review of Metaphysics 35 (3):633-634.
    This deeply researched, carefully constructed and very thoughtful book is fascinating in its own right as well as being indispensable background material for anyone interested in current philosophical thought about space, time, and geometry.
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  39. Poincaré's Retention of Euclid on Apparently Adverse Parallactic Findings: A Reply to A. Grünbaum.F. P. O'Gorman - 1978 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 9 (4):319.
  40. Poincare's Silence and Einstein's Relativity: The Role of Theory and Experiment in Poincaré's Physics.Stanley Goldberg - 1970 - British Journal for the History of Science 5 (1):73-84.
    It is a matter of record that Henri Poincaré never responded publicly to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (RT). Since almost no private papers of Poincaré are available, his attitude toward Einstein's work and his silence on that score become somewhat of a mystery. It is almost certain that Poincaré knew of Einstein's work in RT. First, he was fluent in German, having learned it as a young man when the Germans occupied his home town of Nancy in 1870. Second, (...)
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  41. Henri Poincare and the Quantum Theory.Russell Mccormmach - 1967 - Isis 58:37-55.
  42. The Logic of Infinity.Henri Poincaré - 1963 - In Mathematics and Science: Last Essays. Dover Publications. pp. 45--64.
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  43. Mathematics and Science: Last Essays.Henri Poincaré - 1963 - Dover Publications.
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  44. Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis. Reflections on His Universe of Discourse. Tobias Dantzig.Raymond Seeger - 1955 - Isis 46 (4):380-382.
  45. Il concetto di convenzione matematica in Henry Poincaré.Augusto Cecchini & Henri Poincaré - 1951
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  46. Descartes et le théorème de Poincaré.Jean Pelseneer - 1938 - Isis 29 (1):24-28.
  47. (1 other version)Dernières pensées..Henri Poincaré - 1920 - Paris,: E. Flammarion.
    "Dernières pensées" de Henri Poincaré. Mathématicien, physicien et philosophe français (1854-1912).
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  48. (1 other version)Science and method.Henri Poincaré - 1914 - Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications. Edited by Francis Maitland.
    " Vivid . . . immense clarity . . . the product of a brilliant and extremely forceful intellect." — Journal of the Royal Naval Scientific Service "Still a sheer joy to read." — Mathematical Gazette "Should be read by any student, teacher or researcher in mathematics." — Mathematics Teacher The originator of algebraic topology and of the theory of analytic functions of several complex variables, Henri Poincare (1854–1912) excelled at explaining the complexities of scientific and mathematical ideas to lay (...)
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  49. (1 other version)Science and method.Henri Poincaré - 1914 - New York]: Dover Publications. Edited by Francis Maitland.
    " Vivid . . . immense clarity . . . the product of a brilliant and extremely forceful intellect." — Journal of the Royal Naval Scientific Service "Still a sheer joy to read." — Mathematical Gazette "Should be read by any student, teacher or researcher in mathematics." — Mathematics Teacher The originator of algebraic topology and of the theory of analytic functions of several complex variables, Henri Poincare (1854–1912) excelled at explaining the complexities of scientific and mathematical ideas to lay (...)
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  50. The Relativity of Space.Henri Poincaré - 1913 - The Monist 23 (2):161-180.
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