NDLI: Scientific Discovery: Between Incommensurability of Paradigms and Historical Continuity

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Author	Rebaglia, Alberta
Copyright Year	1999
Abstract	Discoveries in physics imply two elements. The firstone is the belief that formal tools, already foundedin the framework of existing mathematical theories,may offer the solution to a puzzling anomaly. Thesecond one is the ability to assign a physical meaningto the adopted formalism, and to consider all itstheoretical implications.Discussing an historical case where the adoption of aparticular formalism represents the real motor of thecreative intuition, we mean to delineate scientificdiscovery both as a discontinuous change with respectto previous achievements and as a linear process ofknowledge enrichment.On March 1948, during the Pocono conference thatfollowed the one held in Shelter Island, Feynmananalysed the electron-photon interaction formulatingit in terms of the Lagrangian formalism. Thedevelopment of Feynman's idea draws attention to thepoint that novel theoretical discoveries may be theresult of applying existing formal tools. They may bethe result of giving different interpretations toprevious scientific thinking (according to thehermeneutical point that not even scientific textshave a single, absolute meaning but are given amultiplicity of possible readings by different peoplein different contexts).
Starting Page	337
Ending Page	355
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	12331821
Journal	Foundations of Science
Volume Number	4
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15728471
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	1999-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Philosophy of Science Mathematical Logic and Foundations Methodology of the Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	History and Philosophy of Science

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