Underdetermination in Cosmology: an Invitation
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Under-determination in Cosmology: an Invitation
I discuss how modern cosmology illustrates under-determination of theoretical hypotheses by data, in ways that are different from most philosophical discussions. I confine the discussion to the history of the observable universe from about one second after the Big Bang, as described by the mainstream cosmological model: in effect, what cosmologists in the early 1970s dubbed the ‘standard model’...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0309-7013,1467-8349
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8349.2012.00205.x