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An Epistemology of Causal Inference from Experiment
causation experiment Gasparo Berti water barometer vacuum
2016/5/31
The manipulationist account of causation provides a conceptual analysis of cause-effect relationships in terms of hypothetical experiments. It also explains why and how experiments are used for the em...
Experiment and Theory Building
experiment theory building Laudan Nickels Franklin epistemic realism constructivism theory change
2016/5/31
I examine the role of inference from experiment in theory building. What are the options open to the scientific community when faced with an experimental result that appears to be in conflict with acc...
At the age of sixteen, Einstein imagined chasing after a beam of light. He later recalled that the thought experiment had played a memorable role in his development of special relativity. Famous as it...
THE FALSE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN EXPERIMENT AND OBSERVATION:THE CASE OF COMPARATIVE COGNITION
experiment observation comparative cognition animal cognition epistemic reliability
2016/5/30
THE FALSE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN EXPERIMENT AND OBSERVATION:THE CASE OF COMPARATIVE COGNITION.
The Quantum Liar Experiment in Cramer's Transactional Interpretation
transactional interpretation quantum paradoxes entanglement time symmetry
2009/9/16
Cramer's Transactional Interpretation (TI) is applied to the ``Quantum Liar Experiment'' (QLE). It is shown how some apparently paradoxical features can be explained naturally, albeit nonlocally (sinc...
On the role of the Michelson-Morley experiment: Einstein in Chicago
Einstein relativity Michelson-Morley experiment
2009/9/8
This article discusses new material, published in Volume 12 of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, that addresses Einstein’s knowledge of the Michelson-Morley experiment prior to 1905: in a lectu...
The Quantum Liar Experiment in Cramer's Transactional Interpretation
transactional interpretation quantum paradoxes entanglement time symmetry
2009/6/24
Cramer's Transactional Interpretation (TI) is applied to the ``Quantum Liar Experiment'' (QLE). It is shown how some apparently paradoxical features can be explained naturally, albeit nonlocally (sinc...
Inquiry, Evidence, and Experiment: The Experimenter's Regress'' Dissolved
evidence inquiry experiment experimenter's regress robustness discordance Dewey
2011/9/7
Contemporary ways of understanding of science, especially in the philosophy of science, are beset by overly abstract and formal models of evidence. In such models, the only interesting feature of evid...
Gedankenexperiment und Erklärung /Thought Experiment and Scientific Explanation
Erklä rung Gedankenexperiment
2008/4/14
This essay evaluates the epistemic potential of the scientific method of 'thought experiments', i.e. how far one can progress in science by just thinking about experimental situations without doing re...
An Application of Information Theory to the Problem of the Scientific Experiment
Information theory ergodic theory induction
2008/4/10
There are two basic approaches to the problem of induction: the empirical one, which deems that the possibility of induction depends on how the world was made (and how it works) and the logical one, w...