Revisiting the Mathematisation Thesis. Galileo, Descartes, Newton, and the Language of Nature

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Revisiting the Mathematisation Thesis. Galileo, Descartes, Newton, and the Language of Nature

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The paper discusses the state of art of the historical debate concerning Koyré's thesis of mathematization of nature. On the basis of a critical survey of the current debate the paper proposes a diagnosis of the disagreements in the assessment of the thesis and proposes an alternative approach that is able to overcome the disagreements. The diagnosis of the disagreements consists in the fact that Koyré was correct in pointing to a major discontinuity in the use of mathematics that separates ancient and modern science. Therefore all advocates of his theses can present cogent analyses of historical episodes, illustrating Koyré's thesis. On the other hand Koyré seems to have formulated his thesis too broadly, speaking about mathematization of nature. In fact the mathematization concerned our description of motion and thus many aspects of nature remained unchanged. Therefore many opponents of the thesis can present equally cogent case studies, refuting the thesis. The solution, according the paper, consists in a restriction of the validity of the thesis to the area of mathematization of motion. In this restricted area the thesis can be defended against all arguments put forward in the debate.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Revisiting the Mathematisation Thesis. Galileo, Descartes, Newton, and the Language of Nature

Popis výsledku anglicky

The paper discusses the state of art of the historical debate concerning Koyré's thesis of mathematization of nature. On the basis of a critical survey of the current debate the paper proposes a diagnosis of the disagreements in the assessment of the thesis and proposes an alternative approach that is able to overcome the disagreements. The diagnosis of the disagreements consists in the fact that Koyré was correct in pointing to a major discontinuity in the use of mathematics that separates ancient and modern science. Therefore all advocates of his theses can present cogent analyses of historical episodes, illustrating Koyré's thesis. On the other hand Koyré seems to have formulated his thesis too broadly, speaking about mathematization of nature. In fact the mathematization concerned our description of motion and thus many aspects of nature remained unchanged. Therefore many opponents of the thesis can present equally cogent case studies, refuting the thesis. The solution, according the paper, consists in a restriction of the validity of the thesis to the area of mathematization of motion. In this restricted area the thesis can be defended against all arguments put forward in the debate.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

International studies in the philosophy of science

ISSN

0269-8595

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

30

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

8

Strana od-do

399-406

Kód UT WoS článku

000415792000006

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85032586488