Theory, Evidence, Data: Themes from George E. Smith

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A volume of papers inspired by the work of George E. Smith on confirmation and evidence in advanced science—from Newton's gravitation theory to the physics of molecules.

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Smith, Smith and Seth, and Newton on “Taking to Be True”.  (pages 1-19)Jody Azzouni
‘To Witness Facts with the Eyes of Reason’: Herschel on Physical Astronomy and the Method of Residual Phenomena.  (pages 21-42)Teru Miyake
Newton on the Relativity of Motion and the Method of Mathematical Physics.  (pages 43-64)Robert DiSalle
Henry Cavendish and the Density of the Earth.  (pages 65-81)Allan Franklin
Does the Present Overdetermine the Past?  (pages 83-94)Craig W. Fox
Newton’s Example of the Two Globes.  (pages 95-114)Monica Solomon
On Metaphysics and Method in Newton.  (pages 115-138)Howard Stein
Working Hypotheses, Mathematical Representation, and the Logic of Theory-Mediation.  (pages 139-162)Zvi Biener & Mary Domski
Newton’s Principia and Philosophical Mechanics.  (pages 163-195)Katherine Brading
Newton on Quadratures: A Brief Outline.  (pages 197-222)Niccolò Guicciardini
A Tale of Two Forces: Metaphysics and its Avoidance in Newton’s Principia.  (pages 223-242)Andrew Janiak
Theory-Mediated Measurement and Newtonian Methodology.  (pages 243-279)Michael Friedman
Immediacy of Attraction and Equality of Interaction in Kant’s “Dynamics”.  (pages 281-305)Katherine Dunlop
Remarks on J. L. Lagrange’s Méchanique analitique.  (pages 307-326)Sandro Caparrini
Ptolemy’s Scientific Cosmology.  (pages 327-348)N. M. Swerdlow
Revisiting Accepted Science: The Indispensability of the History of Science.  (pages 349-379)George E. Smith

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Kant and the exact sciences.Michael Friedman - 1992 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Philosophical writings.Isaac Newton - 2004 - Cambridge, UK ;: Cambridge University Press. Edited by Andrew Janiak.

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