<i>Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography</i>

Drake, Stillman; Wisan, Winifred Lovell

doi:10.1063/1.2995410

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“…Con Galileo, al contrario, alla scienza venne riconosciuta la capacità di interpretare il mondo naturale così com'è, e ciò anche quando essa postula entità non osservabili come gli atomim (che Galileo interpreta in senso realistico, sulla scorta del platonismo fisico-matematico di cui era alfiere) 4 . E in questo senso sono completamente fuori strada le interpretazioni che fanno di Galileo un pensatore positivista (Drake, 1978(Drake, e 1999, un opportunista metodologico (Feyerabend, 1975), un aristotelico (Geymonat, 1975;Wallace, 1991Wallace, e 1992 oppure, e questa è oggi interpretazione oggi assai diffusa, uno scienziato puro disinteressato alle questioni ontologiche (Feldhay 1998;Machamer, 1998).…”

Section: Realismo Scientifico E Realismo Del Senso Comuneunclassified

La novità del nuovo realismo

2014

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In the Italian public cultural discussion it has often been argued that philosophical realism is an obsolete and irrelevant conception and that no attention should be given to its new versions. In this article, it is argued that this thesis is flawed because the issue of realism is philosophically inescapable. This will be argued by discussing two examples that come from science. The first example concerns the concept of species, which is hotly debated today both in biology and in the philosophy of biology. What is relevant here is that none of the available definitions of species cover all the cases biologists would like to cover -so that

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La novità del nuovo realismo

2014

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“…However, I was not alone. Stillman Drake, one of the foremost Galileo scholars of our time, even presented evidence to show that Galileo could not have reached the conclusion until January 12 or later [85,86,87]. He thought reaching the conclusion on January 10 or January 11 was "unthinkable".…”

Section: Intuition Insight and The "Aha" Phenomenonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deciphering the Enigma of Human Creativity: Can a Digital Computer Think?

Hong¹

2013

J Comput Sci Syst Biol

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The objective of the present article is a) to explain humans' high creativity in non-mystic and unambiguous terms, b) to evaluate the performance of problem-solving computer programs and c) to make suggestions about future designs of heuristics. Unlike many previous attempts in the past century, we sought inspiration from two sources that had been neglected or excluded from considerations by experts: artificial intelligence and introspections of a number of highly creative individuals, who confessed that they had a penchant for visual thinking. Simonton's chance-configuration model was refurbished accordingly. It is now possible for the refurbished model to explain a number of outstanding puzzles that had eluded our predecessors: a) what intuition is, b) why creators had no idea about their source of inspiration even after the fact, c) a peculiar event happening at the discovery time, known as the "aha" phenomenon, d) a type of accidental discoveries known as serendipity. Moreover, the elusive concept of abduction advanced by philosopher Charles Peirce is actually visual thinking in disguise. Blessed with this new understanding, we could evaluate the performance of a number of problem-solving computer programs from a cognitive point of view. It turned out that the common thread that links human creativity and computerbased creative problem solving is heuristic searching. Recognizing that a digital computer must perform heuristic searching in a digital environment, which is not the most user-friendly environment to do so, we made suggestions about how to circumvent the restrictions without sacrificing the principles in future designs of heuristics.

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“…The ancient-Greek συμμετρείν (symmetrein = measure together) [3] was further developed by Galileo (1564-1642) [4,5] who used to illustrate the equivalence of all inertial reference frames with floating boats (Figure 1), where the times τ , τ ′ would be measured with beats of the man's heart and the coordinates ξ , ξ ′ would be measured with steps of the man's foot (the two sailors being assumed identical).…”

Section: Galileo's Reference Framesmentioning

confidence: 99%