- Bib ID:
- 2649046
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Dordrecht ; London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1995
- vii, 251 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0792334612
- Series:
- University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science ; v. 55.
- Full contents:
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- Preface / Jarrett Leplin
- Introduction / Jarrett Leplin
- On the Methods of Science / Dudley Shapere
- Eliminative Induction as a Method of Discovery: How Einstein Discovered General Relativity / John D. Norton
- "The Manifold of Possibilities": Comments on John Norton / John Stachel
- Einstein's Luckiest Thought / Roberto Torretti
- Einstein's Methodology of Discovery was Newtonian Deduction from the Phenomena / Jon Dorling
- Newton's New Way of Inquiry / William Harper and George E. Smith
- A Specimen of Theory Construction from Quantum Gravity / Rafael D. Sorkin
- The Hartle-Hawking Proposal for the Quantum State of the Universe / Don N. Page
- On the Introduction of New Ideas in Science / Dudley Shapere
- Prior Information and the Development of New Ideas: The Copenhagen Family of Theories / Alberto Cordero.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Leplin, Jarrett
- Copyright:
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