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    Kepler's Philosophy and the New Astronomy.Rhonda Martens - 2000 - Princeton University Press.
    Here, Rhonda Martens offers the first extended study of Kepler's philosophical views and shows how those views helped him construct and justify the new astronomy.
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    Dementia care, robot pets, and aliefs.Rhonda Martens & Christine Hildebrand - 2021 - Bioethics 35 (9):870-876.
    Studies have shown that using robot pets in dementia care contributes to a reduction in loneliness and anxiety, and other benefits. Studies also show that, even when people know they are dealing with robots, they often treat the robot as though it is a real pet with genuine emotions. This disconnect between beliefs and behavior occurs not just for people living with dementia, but with cognitively healthy adults, including those who are knowledgeable about how robots work. One possible explanation is (...)
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    Can we make wise decisions to modify ourselves?Rhonda Martens - 2019 - Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies 29 (1):1-18.
    Much of the human enhancement literature focuses on the ethical, social, and political challenges we are likely to face in the future. I will focus instead on whether we can make decisions to modify ourselves that are known to be likely to satisfy our preferences. It seems plausible to suppose that, if a subject is deciding whether to select a reasonably safe and morally unproblematic enhancement, the decision will be an easy one. The subject will simply figure out her preferences (...)
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    Harmony and simplicity: aesthetic virtues and the rise of testability.Rhonda Martens - 2009 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 40 (3):258-266.
    Copernicus claimed that his system was preferable in part on the grounds of its superior harmony and simplicity, but left very few hints as to what was meant by these terms. Copernicus’s pupil, Rheticus, was more forthcoming. Kepler, influenced by Rheticus, articulated further the nature of the virtues of harmony and simplicity. I argue that these terms are metaphors for the structural features of the Copernican system that make it more able to effectively exploit the available data. So it is (...)
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  5. Kepler's Archetypes in Discovery and Justification.Rhonda M. Martens - 1997 - Dissertation, The University of Western Ontario (Canada)
    Kepler, the father of modern physical astronomy, believed that the world is ordered by Archetypes . As quaint as this may seem, I argue that Kepler's archetypes provided methodological and epistemological solutions to problems in physical astronomy acknowledged during his time. ;Kepler used the assumption of a harmony between the archetypal and physical world to argue for the legitimacy of certain methodological innovations. The main difficulty facing astronomers at that time was the availability of observationally equivalent competing astronomical hypotheses. Kepler's (...)
     
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    Kepler's solution to the problem of a realist celestial mechanics.Rhonda Martens - 1999 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 30 (3):377-394.
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    Optics: Paralipomena to Witelo, and Optical Part of Astronomy. Johannes Kepler, William H. Donahue.Rhonda Martens - 2001 - Isis 92 (3):607-608.
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    (1 other version)Anna Marie E. Roos. Luminaries in the Natural World: The Sun and the Moon in England, 1400–1720. xiv+325 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York/Washington, D.C.: Peter Lang, 2001. $63.95. [REVIEW]Rhonda Martens - 2003 - Isis 94 (4):718-719.
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    Book Review: Kepler's Philosophy and the New Astronomy. [REVIEW]Rhonda Martens - 2004 - Annals of Science 61:133-134.
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