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Why did Maxwell's programme supersede Ampere-Weber's?

Nugayev, Rinat (2014) Why did Maxwell's programme supersede Ampere-Weber's? [Preprint]

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Maxwell’s programme did supersede the Ampere-Weber one because it did assimilate some ideas of the Ampere-Weber programme, as well as the presuppositions of the programmes of Young-Fresnel and Faraday. But the opposite proposition is not true. Ampere-Weber programme did not assimilate the propositions of the Maxwellian programme. Maxwell’s victory over his rivals became possible because the core of Maxwell’s unification strategy was formed by Kantian epistemology looked through the prism of William Whewell and such representatives of Scottish Enlightenment as Thomas Reid and William Hamilton.


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Nugayev, Rinatnugayevrinat@gmail.com
Keywords: Maxwell, Kant, Whewell, scientific revolution, electrodynamics.
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics
Depositing User: Dr. Rinat Nugayev
Date Deposited: 23 Apr 2014 13:59
Last Modified: 23 Apr 2014 13:59
Item ID: 10615
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics
Date: 21 April 2014
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10615

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