Seeing things : the philosophy of reliable observation /

In Seeing Things, Robert Hudson assesses a common way of arguing about observation reports called "robustness reasoning." Robustness reasoning claims that an observation report is more likely to be true if the report is produced by multiple, independent sources. Seeing Things argues that r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hudson, Robert (Robert Glanville), 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Observation (Scientific method)
Science > Philosophy.
Observation
Observation (Méthode scientifique)
SCIENCE > Research & Methodology.
Science > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 For and Against Robustness 1
  • The No-Miracles Argument for Robustness 2
  • Probabilistic Approaches to Robustness 8
  • Pragmatic Approaches to Robustness 25
  • Epistemic Independence Approaches to Robustness 36
  • Summary 51
  • 2 The Mesosome: A Case of Mistaken Observation 52
  • Introducing the Mesosome: Rasmussen and Culp 55
  • The Mesosome Experiments 59
  • Reliable Process Reasoning 65
  • Rasmussen's Indeterminism 72
  • 3 The WIMP: The Value of Model Independence 79
  • Dark Matter and WIMPs 81
  • DAMA's Model-Independent Approach 82
  • Model-Dependent Approaches to Detecting WIMPS 88
  • An Historical Argument Against Robustness 93
  • Reliable Process Reasoning 97
  • 4 Perrin's Atoms and Molecules 103
  • Perrin's Table 104
  • The Viscosity of Gases 107
  • Brownian Movement: Vertical Distributions in Emulsions 116
  • Brownian Movement: Displacement, Rotation and Diffusion of Brownian Particles 124
  • Taking Stock 130
  • Perrin's Realism about Molecules 134
  • 5 Dark Matter and Dark Energy 139
  • Dark Matter and the Bullet Cluster 142
  • Type la Supernovae and Dark Energy 150
  • Defeating Systematic Errors: The Smoking Gun 159
  • Robustness in the Dark Energy Case 166
  • 6 Final Considerations Against Robustness 169
  • Independence and the Core Argument 170
  • The Need for Independence Does Not Equal the Need for Robustness 174
  • The Converse to Robustness Is Normally Resisted 179
  • The Corroborating Witness: Not a Case of Robustness 182
  • No Robustness Found in Mathematics and Logic 189
  • Robustness Fails to Ground Representational Accuracy 195
  • The Sociological Dimension of Robustness 198
  • 7 Robustness and Scientific Realism 201
  • The No-Miracles Argument for Scientific Realism 202
  • In Support of Theoretical Preservationism 204
  • Objections to Theoretical Preservationism 208
  • Realism, the Pessimistic Meta-Induction and Preservationism 218
  • The Improved Standards Response: 'Methodological Preservationism' 226.

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