?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Duhem+Before+Breakfast&rft.creator=Wilson%2C+Mark&rft.subject=Classical+Physics&rft.subject=History+of+Philosophy+of+Science&rft.subject=Realism%2FAnti-realism&rft.description=This+essay+traces+some+of+Pierre+Duhem's+motives+for+his+celebrated+%22Quine-+Duhem+thesis%22+to+a+specific+worry+about+theory+underdetermination+that+arises+within+classical+mechanics%2C+concerned+with+the+rivalry+between+Duhem's+own+thermomechanical+approach+and+the+more+narrowly+%22mechanical%22+treatment+pursued+by+Hertz+and+others.+In+the+context+of+the+treatments+of+%22physical+infinitesimals%22+common+at+the+time%2C+these+two+approaches+seem+empirically+indistinguishable.+After+an+exposition+of+the+basic+issues%2C+this+alleged+%22underdetermination%22+is+then+evaluated+from+a+more+modern+perspective.&rft.date=2007-06&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fphilsci-archive.pitt.edu%2F3373%2F1%2FDuhem_Before_Breakfast.pdf&rft.identifier=Wilson%2C+Mark+(2007)+Duhem+Before+Breakfast.+[Preprint]&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fphilsci-archive.pitt.edu%2F3373%2