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A Critical Look at the Standard Cosmological Picture
cosmology relativity time simultaneity
2016/6/13
The discovery that the Universe is accelerating in its expansion has brought the basic concept of cosmic expansion into question. An analysis of the evolution of this concept suggests that the paradig...
Higgs Discovery and the Look Elsewhere Effect
Higgs particle discovery condition Bayesianism 5 sigma limit collider physics
2016/6/12
The discovery of the Higgs particle required a signal of five sigma significance. The rigid application of that condition is a convention that disregards more specific aspects of the given experiment....
Another Look at Empirical Equivalence and Underdetermination of Theory Choice
Empirical equivalence underdetermination theory choice non-empirical virtues empirical evidence confirmation special relativity Hendrik Lorentz
2016/6/12
In 1991 Larry Laudan and Jarret Leplin proposed a solution for the problem of predictive equivalence and empirical underdetermination. In this paper we claim that, even though Laudan and Leplin’s reas...
A philosophical look at the Higgs mechanism
Higgs mechanism symmetry breaking gauge symmetries quantum field theory
2016/5/30
On the occasion of the recent experimental detection of a Higgs-type particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the paper reviews philosophical aspects of the Higgs mechanism as the presentl...
Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies: A First Look
Religiosity Secularism
2009/7/9
Two centuries ago there was relatively little dispute over the existence of God, or the societally beneficial effect of popular belief in a creator. In the twentieth century extensive secularization o...
How Not to Argue for the Indeterminism of Evolution: A Look at Two Recent Attempts to Settle the Issue
determinism indeterminism Stamos Glymour evolution
2008/4/22
I examine recent debates in the philosophy of biology over the determinism or indeterminism of the evolutionary process, focusing on two papers in particular: Glymour 2001 and Stamos 2001. I argue tha...
Another look at general covariance and the equivalence of reference frames
General covariance equivalence relativity
2008/4/10
In his general theory of relativity (GR) Einstein sought togeneralize the special-relativistic equivalence of inertial frames to a principle according to which all frames of reference are equivalent. ...