Ion Petrovici despre Henri Poincaré sau despre rolul presupoziţiilor filosofice în cercetarea ştiinţifică
Ion Petrovici on Henri Poincaré, or the role of suppositions in scientific research

Summary/Abstract: In 1925, Ion Petrovici published a paper on Henri Poincaré as a philosopher. He tried to argue that Poincaré was a scientist who understood that science isn’t free from philosophical presuppositions. Moreover, Poincaré developed a new vision of science based on the role played by the so-called conventions. My aim is to offer a philosophical interpretation of this conventionalist theory about science and to discuss the main contemporary approaches to it. I express my adherence to the interpretation that conventionalism is a tentative to find a third way in epistemology between empiricism and rationalism and that conventions, as relativized a priori judgments, are created freely by reason under the guidance of experience.

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