Christián C Carman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1536413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christián C Carman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christián C |
| FAMILY NAME | Carman |
| SIGNATURE | CARMAN C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Quilmes |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9022-0765 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The crisis of the vicarious hypothesis and the emergence of Kepler’s physical astronomy
Does Explaining Past Success Require (Enough) Retention? The Case of Ptolemaic Astronomy
According to selective, retentive, scientific realism, past empirical success may be explained only by the parts of past theories that are responsible of their successful predictions being approximately true, and thus theoretically retained, or approximated, by the parts of posterior theories responsible of the same successful predictions. In this article, we present as case study the transit from Ptolemy’s to Kepler’s astronomy, and their succes…
Accurata delineatio motuum stellae Martis
In the first chapter of his Astronomia Nova, Kepler introduced a diagram that, he claimed, represents the path of Mars between 1580 and 1596, assuming a resting Earth. In the words of William H. Donahue, “the appearance of this diagram is a dramatic moment in the history of thought. Nothing like it had ever been published before.” It is unique mainly because it is the first diagram that offers what is explicitly asserted to be an accurate represe…
Explicar y contrastar
Usualmente se ha asumido que una única distinción puede dar cuenta del papel que cumplen los conceptos en una teoría respecto de la contrastación y respecto de la explicación. Intentaremos mostrar que esta asunción es incorrecta. Por una parte, no hay razones para considerar que esta coincidencia deba darse y, por otra, como pretenderemos probar a partir de varios ejemplos, de hecho, no se da. La base de contrastación de una teoría no tiene por q…
The Two Earths of Eratosthenes
In the third century B.C.E., Eratosthenes of Cyrene made a famous measurement of the circumference of the Earth. This was not the first such measurement, but it is the earliest for which significant details are preserved. Cleomedes gives a short account of Eratosthenes' method, his numerical assumptions, and the final result of 250,000 stades. However, many ancient sources attribute to Eratosthenes a result of 252,000 stades. Historians have atte…
Distinción Teórico/Observacional
Laudan denuncia una paradoja que recae sobre el realista científico. Por un lado, necesita la distinción teórico/observacional para definir suposición pero, por otro, la disolución de la distinción favorece su argumentación. En este artículo me propongo mostrar que si dentro de la distinción teórico/observacional se identifican dos dicotomías diferentes —una entre entidades observables y no observables y otra entre términos teóricos y no teóricos…
The electrons of the dinosaurs and the center of the Earth
The Two Earths of Eratosthenes
In the third century B.C.E., Eratosthenes of Cyrene made a famous measurement of the circumference of the Earth. This was not the first such measurement, but it is the earliest for which significant details are preserved. Cleomedes gives a short account of Eratosthenes' method, his numerical assumptions, and the final result of 250,000 stades. However, many ancient sources attribute to Eratosthenes a result of 252,000 stades. Historians have atte…
Distinción Teórico/Observacional
Laudan denuncia una paradoja que recae sobre el realista científico. Por un lado, necesita la distinción teórico/observacional para definir suposición pero, por otro, la disolución de la distinción favorece su argumentación. En este artículo me propongo mostrar que si dentro de la distinción teórico/observacional se identifican dos dicotomías diferentes —una entre entidades observables y no observables y otra entre términos teóricos y no teóricos…
The electrons of the dinosaurs and the center of the Earth
The Two Earths of Eratosthenes
In the third century B.C.E., Eratosthenes of Cyrene made a famous measurement of the circumference of the Earth. This was not the first such measurement, but it is the earliest for which significant details are preserved. Cleomedes gives a short account of Eratosthenes' method, his numerical assumptions, and the final result of 250,000 stades. However, many ancient sources attribute to Eratosthenes a result of 252,000 stades. Historians have atte…
Explicar y contrastar
Usualmente se ha asumido que una única distinción puede dar cuenta del papel que cumplen los conceptos en una teoría respecto de la contrastación y respecto de la explicación. Intentaremos mostrar que esta asunción es incorrecta. Por una parte, no hay razones para considerar que esta coincidencia deba darse y, por otra, como pretenderemos probar a partir de varios ejemplos, de hecho, no se da. La base de contrastación de una teoría no tiene por q…
Accurata delineatio motuum stellae Martis
In the first chapter of his Astronomia Nova, Kepler introduced a diagram that, he claimed, represents the path of Mars between 1580 and 1596, assuming a resting Earth. In the words of William H. Donahue, “the appearance of this diagram is a dramatic moment in the history of thought. Nothing like it had ever been published before.” It is unique mainly because it is the first diagram that offers what is explicitly asserted to be an accurate represe…
Does Explaining Past Success Require (Enough) Retention? The Case of Ptolemaic Astronomy
According to selective, retentive, scientific realism, past empirical success may be explained only by the parts of past theories that are responsible of their successful predictions being approximately true, and thus theoretically retained, or approximated, by the parts of posterior theories responsible of the same successful predictions. In this article, we present as case study the transit from Ptolemy’s to Kepler’s astronomy, and their succes…
The crisis of the vicarious hypothesis and the emergence of Kepler’s physical astronomy
Philosophy (5 works) · Physics (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works) · Astronomy (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Historical Astronomy and Related Studies (2 works) · History of Science and Medicine (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Kepler (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)