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  1. Pierre Duhem: Philosophy and History in the Work of a Believing Physicist by Bill Martin Jr., 1999-10-27
  2. Scientist and Catholic: Pierre Duhem by Stanley L. Jaki, 2004-10-01
  3. Pierre Duhem: Essays in History and Philosophy of Science by Pierre Duhem, Roger Ariew, et all 1996-10
  4. Medieval Cosmology: Theories of Infinity, Place, Time, Void, and the Plurality of Worlds by Pierre Duhem, 1987-08-15
  5. Thermodynamics and Chemistry: A Non-Mathematical Treatise for Chemists and Students of Chemistry by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem, 2010-04-05
  6. The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory (Princeton Science Library) by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem, 1991-07-09
  7. The methodology of Pierre Duhem by Armand Lowinger, 1967
  8. Uneasy Genius: The Life and Work of Pierre Duhem (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées) by St.L. Jaki, 1987-06-30
  9. Lettres de Pierre Duhem a sa fille Helene (Scientifiques & croyants, 7) (French Edition) by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem, 1994
  10. Duhem science, realite et apparence: La relation entre philosophie et histoire dans l'euvre de Pierre Duhem (Mathesis) (French Edition) by Anastasios Brenner, 1990

21. References For Duhem
References for pierre duhem. Biography in SL Jaki, Uneasy genius thelife and work of pierre duhem (DordrechtBoston, 1984). O Manville
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References for Pierre Duhem
  • Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  • Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Books:
  • P Brouzeng, Duhem, 1861-1916 : science et providence (Paris- Berlin, 1987).
  • S L Jaki, Uneasy genius : the life and work of Pierre Duhem (Dordrecht-Boston, 1984).
  • O Manville, L'oeuvre scientifique de Pierre Duhem (Paris, 1928).
  • R N D Martin, Pierre Duhem : philosophy and history in the work of a believing physicist
  • V Maz'ya and T Shaposhnikova, Jacques Hadamard, a universal mathematician (London, 1998). Articles:
  • R Ariew and P Barker (eds.), Pierre Duhem : historian and philosopher of science I: Duhem as historian of science, Synthese (2) (Dordrecht, 1990), 177-323.
  • R Ariew and P Barker (eds.), Pierre Duhem: historian and philosopher of science II: Duhem as philosopher of science, Synthese (2) (Dordrecht, 1990), 325-453.
  • (Berlin, 1996), 389-396; 584.
  • A A Brenner, Holism a century ago: the elaboration of Duhem's thesis, in Pierre Duhem : historian and philosopher of science II
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    Biography of pierre duhem (18611916) pierre duhem's father was pierre-Joseph duhem, a commercial traveller, and his mother was Alexandrine Fabre.
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    Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem
    Born: 10 June 1861 in Paris, France
    Died: 14 Sept 1916 in Cabrespine, France
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    Pierre Duhem When Hadamard arrived at the Ecole Normale Duhem was beginning his third year of study there. However the two quickly became firm friends. Hadamard wrote in [17]:- In these long and precious conversations during which, from the moment of my entry to the Ecole, our friendship grew, how I felt him being thrilled by the genius of Hermite , or that of , whose works he followed better than most of us could I mean the most specialised in mathematics ! But in a general way, all the great mathematical ideas, all the one which were truly fruitful, were familiar to him. From this time I owe him revelations, insights how broad, how disdainful of details to the profit of that which was really essential! which for me, effortlessly and as if unconsciously, replaced long months of study. In 1884, while still at the Ecole Normale, Duhem published his first paper which was on electrochemical cells. Even before receiving his licence in mathematics, Duhem submitted his doctoral thesis in 1884. Suddenly his brilliant career shuddered to a halt. The thesis was on thermodynamic potential in physics and chemistry and in it he defined the criterion for chemical reactions in terms of free energy. In this he was replacing the incorrect criterion which Marcellin Berthelot had put forward twenty years earlier. Quite correctly Duhem criticised Berthelot's theory putting forward a correct alternative. Sadly being right is not always good enough and a scientist as influential as Berthelot was able to arrange for Duhem's thesis to be rejected.

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    Pierre Duhem (1861-1916) was a French physicist and devote Catholic who was the principal exponent of a philosophy of knowledge known as conventionalism . Duhem argued that:
    • An external reality exists, but we are only able to study appearances.
    • We can never know whether one or another metaphysical view is correct.
    • The aim of science is not to explain in the sense of identifying which metaphysical view is correct.
    • Science must abandon the idea that it provides explanations in a deep (metaphysical) sense.
    • The goal of science is to discover regularities in the world, and to express these regularities as "laws".
    • Scientific "laws" should not be regarded as identifying "the way things actually are". Scientific "laws" are simply convenient short-hands.
    • Scientific laws can be conveniently expressed using mathematics. However, the mathematical symbols used in such equations do not necessarily correspond to anything real.

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