William A. Wallace's research while affiliated with The Catholic University of America and other places
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Publications (6)
The death of Ernest A. Moody in December of 1975 deprived the academic world of one of its foremost medievalists and intellectual historians, a person to be ranked surely with Pierre Duhem and Anneliese Maier for the many difficult texts he made available to scholars and for the novelty of the insights with which he continually stimulated them. For...
Galileo has been seen, from the philosophical point of view, alternately as a Platonist whose rationalist insights enabled him to read the book of nature because it was written in ‘the language of mathematics,’ and as an experimentalist who used the hypothetico-deductive methods of modern science to establish his new results empirically (McTighe, 1...
Galileo has been seen, from the philosophical point of view, alternately as a Platonist whose rationalist insights enabled him to read the book of nature because it was written in ‘the language of mathematics,’ and as an experimentalist who used the hypothetico-deductive methods of modern science to establish his new results empirically (McTighe, 1...
When Antonio Favaro, the otherwise careful editor of Galileo’s Opere, came across the name “Caietanus” in Galileo’s early notebooks, he assumed that the reference was to Caietanus Thienensis,1 the Paduan calculator; apparently it did not occur to him that the young Galileo would be acquainted with the writings of the Italian Thomist, Thomas de Vio...
The scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, as is commonly acknowledged, had its remote antecedents in Greek and early medieval thought. In the period from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries this heritage gradually took shape in a series of methods and ideas that formed the background for the emergence of modern science. The method...
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... Merton (1968: 158) writes: "Charles Sanders Peirce had long before noticed the strategic role of the 'surprising fact' in his account of what he called 'abduction,' that is, the initiation and entertaining of a hypothesis as a step in inference." This pattern can be assimilated to Peirce's abduction, Thomas' modus ponendo ponens, or Galileo's reasoning ex suppositione (see Wallace 1981). One observes a fact F. This fact is surprising and cannot be explained with existing theories. ...
