Axiomata Sive Leges Motus: a mecânica racional newtoniana sob a ótica da metodologia dos programas de pesquisa científica

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A mecânica racional newtoniana sob a ótica da metodologia dos programas de pesquisa científica. São Paulo 2008Emerson Ferreira de Assis AXIOMATA SIVE LEGES MOTUS:A mecânica racional newtoniana sob a ótica da metodologia dos programas de pesquisa científica. Abstract Assis, Emerson Ferreira de. AXIOMATA SIVE LEGES MOTUS: The Newtonian rational mechanics on the views of methodology of scientific research programmes. 2008.186f.Dissertation (Master degree) -Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas. Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2008. The aim of this paper was to investigate the development of Newtonian rational mechanics, in special to analyze our rise with the publication of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica and the consequent program reception by the continental philosophy. Was used the methodology of scientific research programs like epistemological framework in the program's characterization and description, and too the historiography approach entangled by it.Epistemologically the aim is to scrutiny and to particularize the notion of hard core, specially in your application to Newtonian rational mechanics program, through the analyze of Lakatos conception of referred program's hard core: the dynamics laws of motion and the law of gravitation , presented in books I and III of Principia. To summarize, the question which motive this paper can be formulated in the following way: accepted the supposition that the hard core is the conceptual component which define the demarcation of the scientific practice in a established scope stability, first, the hard core will be not reducible to the others components of Lakatos´ theory of scientific rationality, like a face of positive heuristics? Second, will have the shared suppositions in a scientific program any distinctive characters (epistemological) which legitimate the protection of them face the refutation? At last, applied to the History of Science, this epistemological notion resist against a historic scrutiny?