Planck's Principle and Jean's Conversion
Studies In History And Philosophy Of Science (1991)
- ISSN: 00393681
Abstract
Planck's Principle, that a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it,' is a central dogma of much post-positivist philosophy of scientific progress. I argue that James Jeans's 1911 conversion from the classical to the quantum theory of radiation presents an important counter-example to the Principle. I suggest further that the rejection of Planck's Principle has significant methodological consequences for the philosophical study of scientific progress.
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