Showing papers in "Studies in History and Philosophy of Science in 1992"

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that in many cases he was extremely curious about certain experimental results and that he could hardly wait for the moment when tests which he had suggested were actually done by skilled observers.

TL;DR: The Miracle Argument for scientific realism is formulated: if the entities postulated by a theory T do not exist, if there are no such entities having the properties the theory attributes to them, then T cannot successfully predict new observational facts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on a specific instance of unification, Maxwell's electromagnetic theory, and focus on the inability of these philosophical treatments to capture essential features of the unifying process.