Can that be right? : essays on experiment, evidence and science / Allan Franklin.
Pubblicazione:
Dordrecht : Kluwer, c1999.
Descrizione fisica:
IX, 313 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Serie:
Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; 199
Note:
In parte già pubbl.
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Constructivism, postmodernism and science. 1. How to avoid the experimenters'regress 2. The appearance and disappearance to the 17-kev neutrino 3. Instrumental loyalty and the recycling of expertise 4. The rise of the fifth force 5. There are no antirealists in the laboratory 6. Discovery, pursuit and justification 7. The resolution of discordant results 8. Calibration 9. Laws and experiments. Postscript. References. Index
