Pierre Duhem Philosopher

Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (French: [pjɛʁ moʁis maʁi dy.ɛm] (13px ); 9 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French physicist, mathematician, historian and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages. Duhem also made major contributions to the science of his day, particularly in the fields of hydrodynamics, elasticity, and thermodynamics.

Personal facts

Pierre Duhem
Birth dateJune 09, 1861
Birth place
Paris
Date of deathSeptember 14, 1916
Place of death
Cabrespine
Era
19th-century philosophy
Main interest
Epistemology
History of science
Physics
Philosophy of science

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Philosopher

influenced
Stephen Menn
John Worrall (philosopher)
Stanley Jaki
Émile Jouguet
influenced by
notable idea
Confirmation holism
Duhem–Quine thesis
Gibbs–Duhem equation

Topical connections

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Pierre Duhem on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://books.google.com/books?id=UofBybolmREC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA131#v=onepage&q&f=false
  2. http://books.google.com/books?id=UofBybolmREC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA29#v=onepage&q&f=false
  3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3730-0
  4. http://ftp.colloquium.co.uk/~barrett/celestial.htm
  5. http://ftp.colloquium.co.uk/~barrett/croyant.html
  6. http://ftp.colloquium.co.uk/~barrett/schism.htm
  7. http://ftp.colloquium.co.uk/~barrett/void.html
  8. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2425f.r=.langFR
  9. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2426r.r=.langFR
  10. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k24272.r=.langFR