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Can that be Right? - Essays on Experiment, Evidence, and Science (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)
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Can that be Right? - Essays on Experiment, Evidence, and Science (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 199
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In this collection of essays Allan Franklin defends the view that
science provides us with knowledge about the world which is based
on experimental evidence and on reasoned and critical discussion.
In short, he argues that science is a reasonable enterprise. He
begins with detailed studies of four episodes from the history of
modern physics: (1) the early attempts to detect gravity waves, (2)
how the physics community decided that a proposed new elementary
particle, 17-keV neutrino, did not exist, (3) a sequence of
experiments on K meson decay, and (4) the origins of the Fifth
Force hypothesis, a proposed modification of Newton's Law of
Universal Gravitation. The case studies are then used to examine
issues such as how discord between experimental results is
resolved, calibration of an experimental apparatus and its
legitimate use in validating an experimental result, and how
experimental results provide reasonable grounds for belief in both
the truth of physical theories and in the existence of the entities
involved in those theories. This book is a challenge to the critics
of science, both postmodern and constructivist, to provide
convincing alternative explanations of the episodes and issues
discussed. It should be of interest to philosophers, historians,
and sociologists of science, and to scientists themselves.
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