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Experiment, Right or Wrong (Hardcover, New)
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In Experiment, Right or Wrong, Allan Franklin continues his
investigation of the history and philosophy of experiment presented
in his previous book, The Neglect of Experiment. In this new study,
Franklin considers the fallibility and corrigibility of
experimental results and presents detailed histories of two such
episodes: 1) the experiment and the development of the theory of
weak interactions from Fermi's theory in 1934 to the V-A theory of
1957 and 2) atomic parity violation experiments and the
Weinberg-Salam unified theory of electroweak interactions of the
1970s and 1980s. In these episodes Franklin demonstrates not only
that experimental results can be wrong, but also that theoretical
calculations and the comparison between experiment and theory can
also be incorrect. In the second episode, Franklin contrasts his
view of an "evidence model" of science in which questions of theory
choice, confirmation, and refutation are decided on the basis of
reliable experimental evidence, with that proposed by the social
constructivists.
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