Duhem in Pre-War Italian Philosophy: The Reasons of an Absence

The article illustrates the presence of Duhem’s thought in Italian philosophical culture until the Great War. This presence was very scarce, so we must speak of an absence. One can identify the causes of this absence with the fact that all the great Italian philosophical currents, in different ways,...

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Autor: Maiocchi, Roberto
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2017
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repositório:Transversal (Belo Horizonte)
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/14992
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/transversal/article/view/14992
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Pierre Duhem
Ernst Mach
Italian Philosophy
History of Science
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Resumo:The article illustrates the presence of Duhem’s thought in Italian philosophical culture until the Great War. This presence was very scarce, so we must speak of an absence. One can identify the causes of this absence with the fact that all the great Italian philosophical currents, in different ways, have had little interest or been manifestly opposed to the tensions that came from abroad after the great discussion about the crisis of mechanicism in which Duhem was an important protagonist.