THE EFFECT OF BIASED CONFIRMATION (SOME HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC REMARKS ON STEVE FULLER’S PAPER)
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https://doi.org/10.5840/eps202461460Keywords:
Galileo, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Scientific Revolution, method of ultimate idealizationAbstract
This publication examines in a historical-scientific context some of the assertions and statements of S. Fuller’s article “Galileo’s truth: prolegomena to Feyerabendian research ethics” published in this issue of the journal. The main emphasis is placed on the critical analysis of the “logic of Galileo’s situation in the spirit of historical re-enactment” proposed by S. Fuller and “the lessons that Galileo would have drawn” from the situation of his time. The author of this article believes that the most controversial point in the work of S. Fuller, if we evaluate it from the historical-scientific point of view, is the construction of an extremely idealized model of Galileo’s personality and worldview and historical background without due consideration of what is currently known about the Italian scientist and his epoch.
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