Titlebook: Brazilian Studies in Philosophy and History of Science; An account of recent Décio Krause,Antonio Videira Book 2011 Springer Science+Busine

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Henri Becquerel and Radioactivity: A Critical Revision,with emission of some kind of electromagnetic radiation. He devised experiments that seemed to confirm his interpretation and that were later disconfirmed by other researchers. This paper analyses the early history of radioactivity, paying special attention to Becquerel’s mistakes and to the attitud

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Natural Kinds as Scientific Models,r most developed scientific theories allow us to “cut the world at its joints” (Boyd, 1981, 1984, 1991). In the long run we can disclose natural kinds as nature made them, though as science progresses improvements in theory allow us to revise the extension of natural kind terms.

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On the Nature of Mathematical Knowledge,ndently; nominalists, that they are only linguistic constructs; formalists, that mathematics is not at all a science of objects. I believe the existence of mathematical objects is in fact immaterial for the understanding of the nature of mathematical knowledge. Mathematical truths are formal and onl