Autor: Friedrich Steinle

The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has had a turbulent career in philosophy of science. At times celebrated as the hallmark of philosophical approaches to science, at …

Like any goal-oriented procedure, experiment is subject to many kinds of failures. These failures have a variety of features, depending on the particulars of their sources. For the experimenter these …

Recent philosophy and history of science has seen a surge of interest in the role of concepts in scientific research. Scholars working in this new field focus on scientific concepts, rather than theo …

<b>Translated by Alex Levine</b> The nineteenth century was a formative period for electromagnetism and electrodynamics. Hans Christian Orsted's groundbreaking discovery of the intera …

Schon bald nach dem Erscheinen von Lavoisiers Hauptwerk  Traité élémentaire de chimie im Jahre 1789 sprach man von einer Chemischen Revolution, und diese Einschätzung bleibt auch heute noch …

This book describes the international effort to give order to colours and thus facilitate communication about it, two topics deemed essential to a modernising world that were also recognizably comple …