La Science et l’Hypothèse di Jules-Henri Poincaré.
Note epistemologiche.
Raffaele PISANO
Abstract
In this brief work I shall examine some Jules–Henri Poincaré’s conferences reassumed in 1902, in his famous essay, La Science et l’Hypothèse (La Science). First of all, I shall do an historical excursus of science in the early years of past century, on which I shall produce some epistemological considerations when it concerns Poincareian concepts of “relationship” in geometry, of “physical law”, of “physical hypothesis” and of “physical principle” in mechanics and in thermodynamics theories (chapters III to XIV in La Science). I shall also set reflections about what kind of logical foundation one can find out in his geometry and in his mechanics. Since a large scientific bibliography is already written, in this article, I do not pretend to produce a new result, on the contrary, I shall try to set some reflections on Poincaré’s foundations physical-mathematics theory. Of course, the content of this writing will be potentially factious, since it cannot be the only one possible.
Publ. in "Epistemologia e didattica", (1), 2006