Details, Explanation and Meaning About Pierre Duhem

Pierre Duhem Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (10 June 186114 September 1916) French physicist and philosopher of science.

Duhem adopted an instrumentalist view of science. He gave his name to the Quine-Duhem thesis, which holds that for any given set of observations there are an innumerably large number of explanations. Thus empirical evidence cannot force the revision of a theory. He further observed that the failure of a theory to make accurate predictions implies a failure of the theory as a whole, not of a particular part. These views were later adopted by W. V. Quine.

See also

External Reference

Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem By J J O'Connor and E F Robertson available at
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Duhem.html


This is an Article on Pierre Duhem. Page Contains Information, Facts Details or Explanation Guide About Pierre Duhem


Google
 
Web www.E-paranoids.com

Search Anything