Parts of Falling Objects: Galileo’s Thought Experiment in Mereological Setting
| dc.contributor.author | Gruszczyński, Rafał | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-29T07:10:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-06-29T07:10:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-05-29 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper aims to formalize Galileo’s argument (and its variations) against the Aristotelian view that the weight of free-falling bodies influences their speed. I obtain this via the application of concepts of parthood and of mereological sum, and via recognition of a principle which is not explicitly formulated by the Italian thinker but seems to be natural and helpful in understanding the logical mechanism behind Galileo’s train of thought. I also compare my reconstruction to one of those put forward by Atkinson and Peijnenburg (Stud Hist Philos Sci 35(1):115–136, 2004), and propose a formalization which is based on a principle introduced by them, which I shall call the speed is mediative principle. | pl |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Narodowe Centrum Nauki (Grant No. 2014/13/B/HS1/00766) | pl |
| dc.identifier.citation | Erkenntnis (2022) 87, pp. 1583–1604 | pl |
| dc.identifier.other | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-020-00263-y | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://repozytorium.umk.pl/handle/item/6888 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pl |
| dc.publisher | Springer | pl |
| dc.rights | Attribution 3.0 Poland | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/ | * |
| dc.subject | mereology | pl |
| dc.subject | Galileo | pl |
| dc.subject | thought experiments | pl |
| dc.subject | logic | pl |
| dc.subject | philosophy of science | pl |
| dc.title | Parts of Falling Objects: Galileo’s Thought Experiment in Mereological Setting | pl |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | pl |