Paradigms and Barriers
How Habits of Mind Govern Scientific Beliefs

275 pages
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10 line drawings
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6 x 9
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© 1993
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Habits of Mind
2. Paradigms
3. Barriers
4. The Overthrow of Phlogiston: 1
5. The Overthrow of Phlogiston: 2
6. The Emergence of Probability
7. A Ptolemaic System
8. A "New" Ptolemaic System
9. A Copernican Detective Story
10. Ptolemaic Belief in a Copernican World
11. Hobbes versus Boyle
12. A Note on the Scientific Revolution
13. On Whiggishness
Appendix A
Appendix B
Notes
References
Index
Introduction
1. Habits of Mind
2. Paradigms
3. Barriers
4. The Overthrow of Phlogiston: 1
5. The Overthrow of Phlogiston: 2
6. The Emergence of Probability
7. A Ptolemaic System
8. A "New" Ptolemaic System
9. A Copernican Detective Story
10. Ptolemaic Belief in a Copernican World
11. Hobbes versus Boyle
12. A Note on the Scientific Revolution
13. On Whiggishness
Appendix A
Appendix B
Notes
References
Index
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