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work_h3xqp4v3l5dybk7ja5r4uxfbsa	Milena Ivanova	Conventionalism, structuralism and neo-Kantianism in Poincaré׳s philosophy of science	2015	19	.pdf	application/pdf	9272	525	50	Conventionalism, Structuralism and Neo-Kantianism in Poincaré's Philosophy of Science Poincaré scientific knowledge is relational and made possible by synthetic a priori, of continuity in theory change, I argue that Poincaré defends a complex structuralist Poincaré's argument for the conventionality of geometry and mechanics to generalise to the whole Poincaré's "layered" approach to scientific theories, according to which empirical science Poincaré's overall epistemology of science, his conventionalism and neo-Kantian indistinguishable theory by changing the geometry and modifying the physical laws (for 7 Poincaré argues that our choice of geometrical space is limited to three alternative geometries of In chapter 3 of Science and Hypothesis, Poincaré discusses non-Euclidean geometries and conventionalism, we can now analyse Poincaré's arguments for the conventional status of laws of motion, according to Poincaré are not empirical but conventional. scientific theories relates to Poincaré's structuralism. Poincaré argues that the relations revealed by scientific theories are conditioned 	./cache/work_h3xqp4v3l5dybk7ja5r4uxfbsa.pdf	./txt/work_h3xqp4v3l5dybk7ja5r4uxfbsa.txt