What Should Philosophers of Science Learn from the History of the Electron?

Jonathan Bain · John D. Norton

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We have now celebrated the centenary of J. J. Thomson’s famous paper (1897) on the electron and have examined one hundred years of the history of our first fundamental particle. What should philosophers of science learn from this history? To some, the fundamental moral is already suggested by the rapid pace

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