Gad Prudovsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 1689336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gad Prudovsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gad |
| FAMILY NAME | Prudovsky |
| SIGNATURE | PRUDOVSKY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
History of science and the historian's self-understanding
Can We Ascribe to Past Thinkers Concepts They Had No Linguistic Means to Express
This article takes a clear-cut case in which a historian (Alexander Koyré) ascribes to a writer (Galileo) a concept ("inertial mass") which neither the writer nor his contemporaries had the linguistic means to express. On the face of it the case may seem a violation of a basic methodological maxim in historiography: "avoid anachronistic ascriptions!" The aim of the article is to show that Koyré's ascription, and others of its kind, are legitimate…
The confirmation of the superposition principle: On the role of a constructive thought experiment in Galileo's discorsi
Can We Ascribe to Past Thinkers Concepts They Had No Linguistic Means to Express
This article takes a clear-cut case in which a historian (Alexander Koyré) ascribes to a writer (Galileo) a concept ("inertial mass") which neither the writer nor his contemporaries had the linguistic means to express. On the face of it the case may seem a violation of a basic methodological maxim in historiography: "avoid anachronistic ascriptions!" The aim of the article is to show that Koyré's ascription, and others of its kind, are legitimate…
The confirmation of the superposition principle: On the role of a constructive thought experiment in Galileo's discorsi
The confirmation of the superposition principle: On the role of a constructive thought experiment in Galileo's discorsi
History of science and the historian's self-understanding
Can We Ascribe to Past Thinkers Concepts They Had No Linguistic Means to Express
This article takes a clear-cut case in which a historian (Alexander Koyré) ascribes to a writer (Galileo) a concept ("inertial mass") which neither the writer nor his contemporaries had the linguistic means to express. On the face of it the case may seem a violation of a basic methodological maxim in historiography: "avoid anachronistic ascriptions!" The aim of the article is to show that Koyré's ascription, and others of its kind, are legitimate…
Computer Science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anachronism (1 works) · Ascription (1 works) · Biographical and Historical Analysis (1 works) · Constructive (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Falling (accident (1 works) · Galileo (satellite navigation (1 works)