Hartmann, Stephan (2007) Modeling High-Temperature Superconductivity: Correspondence at Bay? [Preprint]
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How does a predecessor theory relate to its successor? According to Heinz Post's General Correspondence Principle, the successor theory has to account for the empirical success of its predecessor. After a critical discussion of this principle, I outline and discuss various kinds of correspondence relations that hold between successive scientific theories. I then look in some detail at a case study from contemporary physics: the various proposals for a theory of high-temperature superconductivity. The aim of this case study is to understand better the prospects and the place of a methodological principle such as the Generalized Correspondence Principle. Generalizing from the case study, I will then argue that some such principle has to be considered, at best, as one tool that might guide scientists in their theorizing. Finally I present a tentative account of why principles such as the Generalized Correspondence Principle work so often and why there is so much continuity in scientific theorizing.
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| Additional Information: | Forthcoming in: L. Soler, H. Sankey and P. Hoyningen-Huene (eds.), Rethinking Scientific Change. Stabilities, Rupture, Incommensurabilities? Berlin: Springer 2008. | ||||||
| Keywords: | Theory change, correspondence principle, Bayesianism, high-temperature superconductivity | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Theory Change Specific Sciences > Physics > Condensed Matter General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Depositing User: | Stephan Hartmann | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 14 Aug 2007 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 12 Jul 2024 17:56 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 3464 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Theory Change Specific Sciences > Physics > Condensed Matter General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Date: | August 2007 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3464 |
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