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Paul Oppenheim
Paul Oppenheim was born June 17th, 1885 in Frankfurt, Germany to Nathan Moritz Oppenheim a gem dealer. -
Oppenheim moves to the U.S.
Carl Oppenheim and his family moved to the U.S. in 1939 to escape Nazi controlled Germany. When he moved to the U.S. he gave financial resources to many other famous scientists to get them out of Germany such as Hempel. Who helped cowrite his contribution to the scientific Revolution. -
Studies in the Logic of Explanation is published
Paul Oppenheim and Carl Hempel co authored the journal "Studies in the Logic of Explanation" circa April 1948 and it discusses the complex question of "why?" of scientific research. -
Paul Oppenheim's contribution to the Philosophy of Science
Paul Oppenheim's major contribution the Philosophy of Science, comes in the writing of "Studies in the Logic of explanation" which he co-authored with Carl Hempel. Oppenheim's stance was that of "why?", Oppenheim began to question the "phenomena of what is being researched". Which led him to create the DN model, or "covering model" -
What does Oppenheims Reasoning bring to the Philosophy of Science
Oppenheim/Hempel's take on "why" the phenomena that is being researched occurs, had never been done before, and contributed a vital piece of what "Karl Popper" deems "true sciences". There had never been a way of formally addressing the issue. Oppenheim's take is basically that of question everything. -
A link that explains the Deductive-Nomological method
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Results of Oppenheim's research
Overall Oppenheim's research on the "why?" had a massive effect in the Philosophy of Science, that we still see today. We as a society are naturally curious, and the error that Oppenheim discovered was that within the scientific community, scientists were just take the data as law, and not putting much thought into it afterwards. Oppenheim challenged this notion that everything can and must be challenged especially in terms of why did this just occur. We still see these affects today.