Lutz, Sebastian and Hartmann, Stephan (2009) Conventional and Objective Invariance: Debs and Redhead on Symmetry. [Preprint]
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Abstract
This review is a critical discussion of three main claims in Debs and Redhead’s thought-provoking book Objectivity, Invariance, and Convention. These claims are: (i) Social acts impinge upon formal aspects of scientific representation; (ii) symmetries introduce the need for conventional choice; (iii) perspectival symmetry is a necessary and sufficient condition for objectivity, while symmetry simpliciter fails to be necessary.
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| Additional Information: | To appear in Metascience (2010). | |||||||||
| Keywords: | Objectivity, invariance, conventions, symmetry | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Structure of Theories Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances Specific Sciences > Physics General Issues > Conventionalism |
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| Depositing User: | Stephan Hartmann | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2009 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 15:18 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 4735 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Structure of Theories Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances Specific Sciences > Physics General Issues > Conventionalism |
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| Date: | January 2009 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/4735 |
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