Barberousse, Anouk (2007) A Case of Irrationality? In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Were Maxwell and Boltzmann irrational to develop statistical mechanics whereas it was empirically refuted by the specific heats problem? My analysis of this historical episode departs from the current proposals about belief change. I first give a detailed description of Maxwell's and Boltzmann's epistemic states in the years they were working on statistical mechanics and then make some methodological proposals in epistemology that would account for the complexity of this case.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Barberousse, Anouk
Keywords:	formal epistemology applied to history of science, belief change, theory change, description of epistemic states
Subjects:	General Issues > History of Science Case Studies
Depositing User:	Anouk Barberousse
Date Deposited:	11 Oct 2007
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:15
Item ID:	3587
Subjects:	General Issues > History of Science Case Studies
Date:	2007
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3587

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