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Realizing a feature-based framework for scientific data miningMehta, Sameep 13 September 2006 (has links)
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Galileo on scientific explanation: his debt to and departure from Aristotle and his contributions to contemporary modelsNyberg, Ian Kristofor 20 August 2010 (has links)
Among the figures of the Scientific Revolution, Galileo was the most influential in moving science away from Aristotle’s concept of scientific explanation to what became Modern science. My primary goal in this thesis is to explicate Galileo’s concept of scientific explanation, as well as the metaphysical and methodological underpinnings relied upon by Galileo, and to investigate where these depart from Aristotle as well as the Aristotelians of Galileo’s time. Galileo’s most revolutionary scientific achievement was to advance a new, more practical aim for scientific inquiry: he changed the focus of scientific investigations to the measuring, modeling, and predicting of phenomena. In order to increase the reliability of his hypotheses Galileo rejected those aspects of Aristotle’s account of scientific explanation that could not be rigorously empirically justified. The result was that empirical science no longer searched for the essential attributes of bodies or for Aristotle’s causes such as the “final” cause. The identified contributions and innovations promulgated by Galileo are significant because they dictated changes that became formative to contemporary models of scientific explanation. I argue that analyses such as the one given in this dissertation can provide a framework for better understanding twentieth-century criticisms that argue that Aristotle’s concept of scientific explanation contained elements that are indispensable to genuine scientific explanations but that are missing from standard contemporary accounts such as Hempel’s covering law models. Finally, I conclude that my analysis of Galileo’s contributions to scientific explanation suggests that contemporary claims that covering law models should be more receptive to Aristotle’s ideas of causation and essence are misguided. / text
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William Robert Grove (1811-96) : Gentleman of scienceCooper, M. L. January 1987 (has links)
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On the problem of indeterminacy in fluvial geomorphologyWilson, David William January 2001 (has links)
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Developing a coherent framework for author co-citation analysisChennawasin, Chiladda January 2003 (has links)
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The reward system of the French Academy of Sciences in the nineteenth century, 1795-1914Galvez, A. January 1987 (has links)
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Dickens and science : summaries and contributions related to science in Household Words and All The Year Round with an introductionLai, Shu-Fang January 1999 (has links)
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An application of artificial intelligence to quantitative problem solving in engineeringCollis, Jaron Clements January 1996 (has links)
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The impact of information on learning : Some case studies relating to the acquisition of concepts in scienceTurner, G. January 1987 (has links)
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A study of pupils' problems with non-technical words in middle school scienceO'Connor, Steven L. January 1996 (has links)
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