“Ragioni filosofiche e naturali”
The Copernican Revolution and the Thomistic Comprehension of Natural Science

Sommario

1. Presentation of the question: the epistemological basis of the philosophy of nature

1.1 The existence of a "Thomistic interpretation" of STR

1.2 Why Thomistic philosophy did not reach a complete understanding of STR?

1.3 Was this an isolated case? What was the reason?

2. The Galilean contribution to the Copernican Revolution

2.1 The Copernican System in the origins of modern science

2.2 Galileo and the transformation of Copernicanism

2.3 The Thomistic philosophy and the opposition to the Copernicanism

2.4 The condemning of Copernicanism

3. The epistemological discussions about Galileo's science

3.1 The "official" position: the Copernican System as mathematical Hypotheses

3.2 The Galileian argumentation in favor of the copernicanism

3.3 The Duhem's thesis

3.4 Hypothesis and realism in Galileo's science

4. Conclusion: epistemological paradigms and cosmological paradigmes