Fresnel’s optics of moving bodies under de view of structural realism
nature of science teaching and the educational demands of the contemporaneity
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https://doi.org/10.53727/rbhc.v15i2.814Keywords:
History of Science, Epistemology, Science Teaching, OpticsAbstract
This article aims to present a study of a historical episode, namely the study of the optics of moving bodies in the 19th century, and to discuss its epistemological and educational implications. Through an analysis of historical epistemology, we carried out reflections on the provisionality of scientific knowledge and the abandonment of theoretical entities of the science of the past, in order to create an argument in favor of the reliability of scientific knowledge. By relying on critical forms of scientific realism, we aim to defend views of science that are ontologically relativist, maintaining critical realistic and objectivist conceptions of science.
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