Year: 2024
Type: preprint
Abstract: The label French Conven onalism has generally been used to refer to Poincaré and Duhem, who were seen as having the same view.Current scholarship presents a more complex picture of French philosophy of science in the early twen eth century.There are many conflic ng interpreta ons of both Poincaré and Duhem, but at least we have learned that they do not have the same viewpoint.However, Duhem and Poincaré do share the idea that in some areas of science, we make a choice that is not empirically determinable.We can certainly say that there was an important set of issues being debated in French philosophy of science in the very early twen eth century and that these debates centered on the views of Poincaré and Duhem, no ma er what label we use. Introduc onFrench conven onalism is a term that has been used for a long me, generally to refer to Poincaré and Duhem, who were very widely cited in the philosophy of science.However, it was not a label used in France.Rather than conven onalism, the movement that was current in France at the me and to which Poincaré and Duhem were associated was called New Posi vism, which was the preferred label given by the most extreme French conven onalist of the period, Édouard Le Roy (Le Roy 1901b, Brenner 2015, de Paz 2021).Neither Poincaré nor Duhem labeled their views as any sort of "ism," so the labels applied to them were always from others.Furthermore, the extent to which Duhem and Poincaré's views on science can be seen
Author: Stump, David J.
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7047202565
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