Modeling High-Temperature Superconductivity: Correspondence at Bay?

Hartmann, Stephan (2008): Modeling High-Temperature Superconductivity: Correspondence at Bay? In: Soler, Léna; Sankey, H. und Hoyningen-Huene, Paul (Hrsg.): Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison: Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities? Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Bd. 255. Berlin: Springer. S. 107-128

Abstract

How does a predecessor theory relate to its successor? According to Heinz Post's General Correspondence Principle, the successor theory has to account for the empirical success of its predecessor. After a critical discussion of this principle, I outline and discuss various kinds of correspondence relations that hold between successive scientific theories. I then look in some detail at a case study from contemporary physics: the various proposals for a theory of high-temperature superconductivity. The aim of this case study is to understand better the prospects and the place of a methodological principle such as the Generalized Correspondence Principle. Generalizing from the case study, I will then argue that some such principle has to be considered, at best, as one tool that might guide scientists in their theorizing. Finally I present a tentative account of why principles such as the Generalized Correspondence Principle work so often and why there is so much continuity in scientific theorizing.

• Dokumententyp: Buchbeitrag
• Publikationsform: Postprint
• Keywords: Theory change, correspondence principle, Bayesianism, high-temperature superconductivity
• Fakultät: Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) ; Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) > Philosophy of Science ; Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) > Philosophy of Physics
• Themengebiete: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 100 Philosophie
• ISBN: 978-1-4020-6279-7
• Ort: Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch