The Bold and the Humble: Physics and Epistemology

Pucci, R.; Angilella, G. G. N.

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For many years , the epistemological debate in Italy has been polarized between ‘internists’ and ‘externists’. That is, between those who think that the scientific ‘progress’ should be explained by means of criteria internal to science itself (and these are related to Popper), and those who think that scientific revolutions could be understood only in connection with economical, political, and social revolutions.

Originally appeared in 2014, in Italian, on Il dialogo, available online at http://www.ildialogo.org.

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John Bardeen (1908–1991) was the only scientist to receive two Nobel prizes, both for physics: one (in 1956, with William Shockley and Walter Brattain), for the invention of the transistor, and the other (in 1972, with Leon N. Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer) for the theory of superconductivity.
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Cf. e.g., the Roman Observer.

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Pucci, R., Angilella, G.G.N. (2017). The Bold and the Humble: Physics and Epistemology. In: Angilella, G., La Magna, A. (eds) Correlations in Condensed Matter under Extreme Conditions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53664-4_27

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