Banca de DEFESA: LEONARD FERNANDES E SILVA

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DISCENTE : LEONARD FERNANDES E SILVA
DATA : 05/04/2019
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: Instituto de Física
TÍTULO:

Ludwig Boltzmann's Theoretical Pluralism

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Ludwig Boltzmann; theoretical pluralism; theoretical physics; philosophy of science; history of science

PÁGINAS: 125
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: História
SUBÁREA: História das Ciências
RESUMO:

The figure of Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, a nineteenth-century Austrian physicist, is acknowledged for his great contributions to thermodynamics, electromagnetism and gas kinetic theory, being one of the founding fathers of Statistical Mechanics. Less well known, however, is Boltzmann’s image as a philosopher of science. In his thoughts on the nature and development of science, Boltzmann developed a philosophy that saw in the social process of development of this through an analogy with the Darwinian evolution process. From this idea and from other philosophical bases, Boltzmann developed the thesis of theoretical pluralism. Boltzmann defended this thesis was a fundamental point in the development of Science and warned that the lack of pluralism would lead to scientific dogmatism. The objective of this work is to highlight the image of the philosopher of science who, within the scientific debate of his time, defended both a pluralistic view of scientific theories and his own theories. We will seek to contextualize the development of the thesis of pluralism with the internal and external factors that may have affected Boltzmann's life and philosophy, showing how the main political-social events and scientific discoveries of the period influenced his thinking.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 285676 - OLIVAL FREIRE JUNIOR
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