The Method of Modern Science

Cellucci, Carlo

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Carlo Cellucci³

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Abstract

It is widely held that the core of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century was a revolutionary change in the scientific method which involved a break with Aristotle. Thus Cohen states that Galileo earns the title of “founder of the scientific method of inquiry.” This is unjustified, because Galileo’s method is really Aristotle’s analytic-synthetic method.

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Notes

1.
Cohen (1985, 142).
2.
Galilei (1968, VII, 75).
3.
Ibid.
4.
Ibid.
5.
Ibid.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Albert of Saxony (1986, Book I, Question IX, f. 8 r.).
8.
Galilei (1968, XVIII, 248).
9.
Ibid., IV, 521.
10.
Ibid.
11.
Ibid., VII, 75.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Ibid., VII, 76.
14.
Favaro (1968, 14).
15.
Aristotle, Analytica Posteriora, A 3, 73 a 17–18.
16.
Galilei (1968, VI, 259).
17.
Ibid., VI, 258.
18.
Ibid., VI, 259.
19.
Ibid., VII, 167.
20.
Ibid., VII, 176.
21.
See, for example, Song et al. (1997).
22.
Galilei (1968, VII, 170).
23.
Ibid., VIII, 268.
24.
Ibid.
25.
Ibid.
26.
Ibid., VII, 170.
27.
Ibid., VII, 172.
28.
Ibid., VII, 172–173.
29.
Ibid., VII, 173.
30.
Ibid.
31.
Ibid.
32.
Ibid., VII, 174.
33.
Newton (1972, I, 54).
34.
Newton (1952, 404).
35.
Ibid.
36.
Ibid.
37.
Ibid.
38.
Ibid.
39.
Ibid.
40.
Newton (1972, II, 555).
41.
Newton (1952, 404).
42.
Ibid., 404–405.
43.
Cohen (1971, 294).
44.
Ibid.
45.
Ibid.
46.
Newton (1967–1981, VIII, 451).
47.
Cohen (1971, 294).
48.
Newton (1967–1981, VIII, 451).
49.
Cohen (1971, 294).
50.
Ibid.
51.
Ibid., 295.
52.
Newton (1952, 369).
53.
Newton (1972, I, 16).
54.
Ibid., II, 764.
55.
Nowak (2000, 21).
56.
Galilei (1968, VII, 229).
57.
Ibid., VII, 233.
58.
Ibid.
59.
Ibid., VII, 229.
60.
Ibid., VII, 233.
61.
Ibid., VIII, 276.
62.
Ibid., VII, 234.
63.
Ibid.
64.
Ibid.
65.
Ibid., VII, 233.
66.
Ibid.
67.
Ibid., VII, 234.
68.
Ibid., V, 187.
69.
Ibid.
70.
Ibid.,V, 188.
71.
Ibid.
72.
Ibid., V, 105.
73.
Ibid., V, 133.
74.
Aristotle, Metaphysica, α 3, 995 a 16–17.
75.
Galilei (1968, VII, 229).
76.
Husserl (1970, 54).
77.
Galilei (1968, VI, 232).
78.
Ibid.
79.
Ibid., V, 190.
80.
Ibid.
81.
Ibid., VI, 347.
82.
Ibid., VI, 347–348.
83.
Ibid., VI, 350.
84.
Ibid.
85.
Berkeley (1948–1957, II, 47).
86.
Ibid., II, 45.
87.
Ibid.
88.
Aristotle, Physica, Γ 2, 202 a 7–8.
89.
Ibid., Z 3, 234 a 31.
90.
Plato, Timaeus, 53 b 1–5.
91.
Dirac (1963, 53).
92.
Wigner (1960, 2).
93.
For more on this, see Cellucci (2013a).
94.
Galilei (1968, V, 102).
95.
Popper (1996, 39).
96.
Popper (1972, 59).
97.
Kant (1992, 557).
98.
Ibid., 557–558.
99.
Ibid., 558. For more about Kant on truth, see Capozzi (2002), Chapter 12.
100.
Tarski (1969, 69).
101.
Ibid.
102.
Tarski (1944, 363–364).
103.
Tarski (1969, 70).
104.
Ibid.
105.
Dummett (1993, 75).
106.
Byers (2007, 327).
107.
Ibid.
108.
Ibid., 330.
109.
Ibid., 328.
110.
Ibid.
111.
Ibid., 334.
112.
Ibid.
113.
Hume (1978, 180).
114.
Ibid.
115.
Ibid., 181.
116.
Frege (1959, 87).

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Cellucci, C. (2013). The Method of Modern Science. In: Rethinking Logic: Logic in Relation to Mathematics, Evolution, and Method. Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6091-2_8

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