Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate

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Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel
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2019
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The continental drift controversy has been deeply analysed in terms of rationalist notions, which seem to find there a unique topic to describe the weight of evidence for reaching consensus. In that sense, many authors suggest that Alfred Wegener’s theory of the original supercontinent Pangea and the subsequent continental displacements finally reached a consensus when irrefutable evidence became available. Therefore, rationalist approaches suggest that evidence can be enough by itself to close scientific controversies. In this article I analyse continental drift debates from a different perspective which is based on styles of thought. I’ll argue that continental drift debate took much longer than it was usually recognized with two styles of thought coexisting for hundreds of years. These were fixism and mobilism and they were always confronting their own evidence and interpretations and functioning as general frameworks for the acceptability of a specific theory. Therefore, this text aims to bring much broader sociological elements than usually involved in the analysis of the continental drift theory.
Fil: Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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CONTINENTAL DRIFT
EVIDENCE
PANGEA
SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSIES
STYLES OF THOUGHT
WEGENER
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spelling Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift DebatePellegrini, Pablo ArielCONTINENTAL DRIFTEVIDENCEPANGEASCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSIESSTYLES OF THOUGHTWEGENERhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.9https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5The continental drift controversy has been deeply analysed in terms of rationalist notions, which seem to find there a unique topic to describe the weight of evidence for reaching consensus. In that sense, many authors suggest that Alfred Wegener’s theory of the original supercontinent Pangea and the subsequent continental displacements finally reached a consensus when irrefutable evidence became available. Therefore, rationalist approaches suggest that evidence can be enough by itself to close scientific controversies. In this article I analyse continental drift debates from a different perspective which is based on styles of thought. I’ll argue that continental drift debate took much longer than it was usually recognized with two styles of thought coexisting for hundreds of years. These were fixism and mobilism and they were always confronting their own evidence and interpretations and functioning as general frameworks for the acceptability of a specific theory. Therefore, this text aims to bring much broader sociological elements than usually involved in the analysis of the continental drift theory.Fil: Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaSpringer Netherlands2019-03info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/125533Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel; Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate; Springer Netherlands; Journal for General Philosophy of Science; 50; 1; 3-2019; 85-1020925-45601572-858CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10838-018-9439-7info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s10838-018-9439-7info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-10-22T11:34:38Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/125533instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-10-22 11:34:38.987CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate
title Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate
spellingShingle Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate
Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
EVIDENCE
PANGEA
SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSIES
STYLES OF THOUGHT
WEGENER
title_short Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate
title_full Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate
title_fullStr Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate
title_full_unstemmed Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate
title_sort Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel
author Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv CONTINENTAL DRIFT
EVIDENCE
PANGEA
SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSIES
STYLES OF THOUGHT
WEGENER
topic CONTINENTAL DRIFT
EVIDENCE
PANGEA
SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSIES
STYLES OF THOUGHT
WEGENER
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The continental drift controversy has been deeply analysed in terms of rationalist notions, which seem to find there a unique topic to describe the weight of evidence for reaching consensus. In that sense, many authors suggest that Alfred Wegener’s theory of the original supercontinent Pangea and the subsequent continental displacements finally reached a consensus when irrefutable evidence became available. Therefore, rationalist approaches suggest that evidence can be enough by itself to close scientific controversies. In this article I analyse continental drift debates from a different perspective which is based on styles of thought. I’ll argue that continental drift debate took much longer than it was usually recognized with two styles of thought coexisting for hundreds of years. These were fixism and mobilism and they were always confronting their own evidence and interpretations and functioning as general frameworks for the acceptability of a specific theory. Therefore, this text aims to bring much broader sociological elements than usually involved in the analysis of the continental drift theory.
Fil: Pellegrini, Pablo Ariel. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
description The continental drift controversy has been deeply analysed in terms of rationalist notions, which seem to find there a unique topic to describe the weight of evidence for reaching consensus. In that sense, many authors suggest that Alfred Wegener’s theory of the original supercontinent Pangea and the subsequent continental displacements finally reached a consensus when irrefutable evidence became available. Therefore, rationalist approaches suggest that evidence can be enough by itself to close scientific controversies. In this article I analyse continental drift debates from a different perspective which is based on styles of thought. I’ll argue that continental drift debate took much longer than it was usually recognized with two styles of thought coexisting for hundreds of years. These were fixism and mobilism and they were always confronting their own evidence and interpretations and functioning as general frameworks for the acceptability of a specific theory. Therefore, this text aims to bring much broader sociological elements than usually involved in the analysis of the continental drift theory.
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