| 书目名称 | Can that be Right? | | 副标题 | Essays on Experiment | | 编辑 | Allan Franklin | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | In this collection of essays Allan Franklin defends the viewthat science provides us with knowledge about the world which is basedon experimental evidence and on reasoned and critical discussion. Inshort, he argues that science is a reasonable enterprise. .He begins with detailed studies of four episodes from the history ofmodern physics: (1) the early attempts to detect gravity waves, (2)how the physics community decided that a proposed new elementaryparticle, 17-keV neutrino, did not exist, (3) a sequence ofexperiments on K meson decay, and (4) the origins of the Fifth Forcehypothesis, a proposed modification of Newton‘s Law of UniversalGravitation. .The case studies are then used to examine issues such as how discordbetween experimental results is resolved, calibration of anexperimental apparatus and its legitimate use in validating anexperimental result, and how experimental results provide reasonablegrounds for belief in both the truth of physical theories and in theexistence of the entities involved in those theories. .This book is a challenge to the critics of science, both postmodernand constructivist, to provide convincing alternative explanations ofthe episodes and issues | | 出版日期 | Book 1999 | | 关键词 | Case Studies; argue; history; history of literature; issue; knowledge; physics; reason; science; truth | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5334-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-6242-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-011-5334-8Series ISSN 0068-0346 Series E-ISSN 2214-7942 | | issn_series | 0068-0346 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1999 |
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