RETRACTED: Philosophical and methodological aspects of scientific revolutions in science in physics teaching in medical schools

Abstract

RETRACTED ARTICLEThe paper attempts to review the scientific revolution in physics of the XVII-th century in the context of the ideas put forward and justified in the book of Western philosopher Thomas Kuhn «The Structure of Scientific Revolutions». The main focus is on the process of creation of Newtonian mechanics as the antipode of the mechanics of Aristotle and Ptolemy system of the world. Illustrating this thesis Kuhn as a «paradigm shift anomaly», «duration of a paradigm shift», «constructive scientific crisis», «open-type theory indused» and others. The philosophical views of Newton as a system are analyzed.

Keywords

• the crisis in the aristotelian paradigm of physics
• the scientific revolution
• methodological reflection of crises in natural science
• scientific paradigm
• paradigmatic shifts in science
• a paradigm shift and anomalies