This philosopher claimed that Arab astronomers did not understand that Ptolemaic epicycles were notintended to represent real physical events in his essay collection To Save the Phenomena, which coverssimilar ground as his ten-volume history of cosmology which praises the role of the Catholic Church inadvancing medieval science, entitled The System of World.
This philosopher claimed that Arab astronomers did not understand that Ptolemaic epicycles were notintended to represent real physical events in his essay collection To Save the Phenomena, which coverssimilar ground as his ten-volume history of cosmology which praises the role of the Catholic Church inadvancing medieval science, entitled The System of World. This thinker claimed that science is only a"calculating device" for predicting manifestations of reality, and does not reveal truths about nature itself,in his magnum opus, The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory. This philosopher lends his name to atheory of underdetermination in physics, which notes that a hypothesis depends on other hypotheses andcannot be tested in isolation. For 10 points, name this philosopher and physicist whose namesake thesis wasextended to all empirical knowledge by Willard van Orman Quine.
This philosopher claimed that Arab astronomers did not understand that Ptolemaic epicycles were notintended to represent real physical events in his essay collection To Save the Phenomena, which coverssimilar ground as his ten-volume history of cosmology which praises the role of the Catholic Church inadvancing medieval science, entitled The System of World.
Pierre Duhem