Scientific Realism and the Divide et Impera Strategy: The Ether Saga Revisited
Scientific Realism and the Divide et Impera Strategy: The Ether Saga Revisited
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科学现实主义和分而治之策略：重温以太传奇
DOI：
10.1086/662566
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
A. Cordero
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作者：
A. Cordero
本文以光学以太为例，提出了四点思考，以说明为什么科学实在论的分而治之策略的共时版本不太可能奏效。这些考虑来自：（a）19世纪的光理论;（B）从菲涅尔时代开始，令人惊讶的蕴涵作为一种认识价值的兴起;（c）1900年左右世纪末报告中对以太的评估;（d）以太理论化的根源，现在已经被取代的形而上学假设。案例的典型性及其对策略的历时版本的影响进行了简要的讨论。
Using the optical ether as a case study, this article advances four lines of consideration to show why synchronic versions of the divide et impera strategy of scientific realism are unlikely to work. The considerations draw from (a) the nineteenth-century theories of light, (b) the rise of surprising implication as an epistemic value from the time of Fresnel on, (c) assessments of the ether in end-of-century reports around 1900, and (d) the roots of ether theorizing in now superseded metaphysical assumptions. The typicality of the case and its impact on diachronic versions of the strategy are briefly discussed.