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Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie (1861–1916)

1 Life
2 Physics
3 History of science
4 Philosophy of science


DON HOWARD

Bibliography

  1. List of works
  2. References and further reading

List of works

Duhem, P.M.M. (1886) Le potential thermodynamique et ses applications à la mécanique chimique et à la étude des phénomènes électriques (The Thermodynamic Potential and Its Applications to Mechanics, Chemistry and the Study of Electrical Phenomena), Paris: A. Hermann. (Duhem’s dissertation.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1892a) ’Quelques réflexions au sujet des théories physiques’ (Some Reflections on the Subject of Physical Theories), Revue des questions scientifique, 2nd series, 31: 139–77. (Duhem’s first paper on the philosophy of science.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1892b) ’Notation atomique et hypothèse atomistique’ (Atomic Notation and the Atomistic Hypothesis), Revue des questions scientifique, 2nd series, 31: 391–454.

Duhem, P.M.M. (1893a) ’Physique et métaphysique’ (Physics and Metaphysics), Revue des questions scientifique, 2nd series, 34: 55–83. (On the difference between the methods and objects of physics and metaphysics.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1893b) ’L’école anglaise et les théories physiques, à propos d’un livre de W. Thomson’ (The English School and Physical Theories: apropos a Book by W. Thomson), Revue des questions scientifique, 2nd series, 34: 345–78. (Critique of mechanistic explanation.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1894) ’Quelques réflexions au sujet de la physique expérimentale’ (Some Reflections on the Subject of Experimental Physics), Revue des questions scientifique, 2nd series, 36: 179–229. (The first clear statement of Duhem’s underdeterminationism.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1895a) ’Les théories de la chaleur. I. Les précurseurs de la thermodynamique’ (Theories of Heat. I. The Precursors of Thermodynamics), Revue des deux mondes 129: 869–901. (On the history of thermodynamics.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1895b) ’Les théories de la chaleur. II. Les créateurs de la thermodynamique’ (Theories of Heat. II. The Creators of Thermodynamics), Revue des deux mondes 130: 379–415. (Continuation of 1895a.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1895c) ’Les théories de la chaleur. III. Chaleur et movement’ (Theories of Heat. III. Heat and Motion), Revue des deux mondes 130: 851–68. (Continuation of 1895a.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1896) ’L’évolution des théories physiques du XVIIe siècle jusqu’à nos jours’ (The Evolution of Physical Theories from the Seventeenth Century to Our Day), Revue des questions scientifique, 2nd series, 40: 463–99. (On the history of physical theory in the modern period.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1902a) Le mixte et la combinaison chimique. Essai sur l’évolution d’une idée (Mixture and Chemical Combination: An Essay on the Evolution of an Idea), Paris: C. Naud; repr. Paris: Fayard, 1985. (On the history of the idea of chemical combination.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1902b) Les théories électriques de J. Clerk Maxwell. Étude historique et critique (The Electrical Theories of J. Clerk Maxwell: A Historical and Critical Study), Paris: A. Hermann. (Critial history of Maxwell’s work on electrodynamics.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1903a) L’évolution de la mécanique, Paris: A. Joanin; German trans. P. Frank Die Wandlungen der Mechanik und der mechanischen Naturerklärung, Leipzig: J.A. Barth, 1912; trans. M. Cole The Evolution of Mechanics, Monographs, and Textbooks on Mechanics of Solids and Fluids, Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands and Germantown, MD: Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1980. (Duhem’s major study of the history of mechanics.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1903b) ’Analyse de l’ouvrage de Ernst Mach: Le mécanique. Étude historique et critique de son développement(Analysis of the Ernst Mach’s Work: Le mécanique. Étude historique et critique de son développement), Bulletin des sciences mathématiques, 2nd series, 27: 261–83. (Review of the French translation of Mach’s Science of Mechanics.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1905) ’Physique de croyant’, Annales de philosophie chrétienne 155: 44–67, 133–159; repr. in La théorie physique, 2nd edn, 413–47; trans. as ‘Physics of a Believer’, included in La théorie physique, 2nd edn, 1914, 273–311.

Duhem, P.M.M. (1905–6) Les origines de la statique. Les sources des théories physiques, Paris: A. Hermann, 2 vols; trans. G.F. Leneaux, V.N. Vagliente and G.H. Wagener, The Origins of Statics: The Sources of Physical Theory, Boston and Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991. (On the history of statistics.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1906a) La théorie physique. Son objet et sa structure, Paris: Chevalier et Rivière; 2nd edn, 1914; repr. Paris: Vrin, 1989; German trans. F. Adler, intro. by E. Mach Ziel und Struktur der physikalischen Theorien, Leipzig: J.A. Barth, 1908; trans. P.P. Wiener, The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1954. (Originally published in the Revue de philosophie 4, 1904; 5, 1904; and 6, 1905. Duhem’s major essay on the philosophy of science.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1906b) Recherches sur l’élasticité (Investigations on Elasticity), Paris: Gauthier-Villars. (One of Duhem’s last major scientific works.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1906–13) Études sur Léonard de Vinci, ceux qu’il a lus et ceux qui l’ont lu (Studies on Leonardo da Vinci: Those Whom He Had Read and Those Who Have Read Him), Paris: A. Hermann, 3 vols. (Historical study of Leonardo da Vinci.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1907) Josiah Willard Gibbs, à propos de la publication de ses mémoires scientifiques (Josiah Willard Gibbs: On the Occasion of the Publication of His Scientific Writings), Paris: A. Hermann. (Duhem’s brief on behalf of Gibb’s approach to thermodynamics.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1908) ΣΩZEIN TA ΦAINOMENA, Essai sur la notion de théorie physique, de Platon á Galilée, Paris: A. Hermann; repr. Paris: Vrin, 1990; trans. E. Dolan and C. Maschier, To Save the Phenomena: An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1969. (Briefer historical statement of Duhem’s philosophy of science.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1911) Traité d’énergétique ou de thermodynamique générale (Treatise on Energetics or General Thermodynamics), Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 2 vols. (Late statement of Duhem’s programme of generalized thermodynamics.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1913–59) Le système du monde. Histoire des doctrines cosmologiques de Platon à Copernic (The System of the World: A History of Cosmological Doctrines from Plato to Copernicus), Paris: A. Hermann, 10 vols; selected portions, mainly from vol. 7, trans. R. Ariew Medieval Cosmology, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1985. (Duhem’s most important study of the history of ancient and medieval cosmology.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1915) La science allemande, Paris: A. Hermann; trans. J. Lyon, German Science, La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1991. (Wartime critique of the German way of doing science.)

Duhem, P.M.M. (1996) Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science, trans. R. Ariew and P. Barker, Indianapolis, IN and Cambridge: Hackett. (A collection of essays in translation, includes 1892a, 1893a, 1893b, 1894, 1903b and selections from 1908.)

References and further reading

Ariew, R. and Barker, P. (eds) (1990) ’Pierre Duhem: Historian and Philosopher of Science’, special issue of Synthèse 83 (2–3). (A very rich collection representative of the best recent work on Duhem’s history and philosophy of science.)

Brenner, A. (1990) Duhem: Science, réalité et apparence. La relation entre philosophie et histoire dans l’œuvre de Pierre Duhem (Duhem: Science, Reality and Appearance. The Relation between Philosophy and History in the Work of Pierre Duhem), Paris: Vrin. (A reliable and accessible recent critical study that stresses the systematic unity of Duhem’s work.)

Brouzeng, P. (1987) Duhem, 1861–1916. Science et providence (Duhem, 1861–1916: Science and Providence), Paris: Belin. (A recent biographical study.)

Diederich, W. (1974) Konventionalität in der Physik. Wissenschaftstheoretische Untersuchungen zum Konventionalismus (Conventionality in Physics: Investigations in the Philosophy of Science Concerning on Conventionalism), Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. (A little-known but still very helpful study of the conventionalist tradition, emphasizing Poincaré and Duhem and their reception by logical empiricists.)

Duhem, H.-P. (1936) Un savant français: Pierre Duhem (A French Scholar: Pierre Duhem), Paris: Librairie Plon. (Biography by Duhem’s daughter.)

Jaki, S.L. (1987) Uneasy Genius: The Life and Work of Pierre Duhem, Dordrecht: Nijhoff. (The most comprehensive recent biography; also contains the most complete bibliography.)

Lowinger, A. (1941) The Methodology of Pierre Duhem, New York: Columbia University Press. (The first study to introduce Duhem’s philosophy of science to an American audience.)

Maiocchi, R. (1985) Chimica e Filosofia, Scienza, Epistemologia, Storia e Religione nell’ Opera di Pierre Duhem (Chemistry and Philosophy, Science, Epistemology, History and Religion in the Work of Pierre Duhem), Florence: La Nuova Italia Editrice. (A provocative reading of Duhem’s philosophy of science as aiming to defend the place of theory in science rather than a statement of instrumentalistic conventionalism.)

Martin, R.N.D. (1991) Pierre Duhem: Philosophy and History in the Work of a Believing Physicist, La Salle, IL: Open Court. (A very helpful study that pays special attention to the religious side of Duhem’s thinking.)

Picard, E. (1921) La vie et l’oeuvre de Pierre Duhem (The Life and the Work of Pierre Duhem), Paris: Gauthier-Villars. (One of the earliest biographies.)

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