Dawid, Richard (2018) The Significance of Non-Empirical Confirmation in Fundamental Physics. [Preprint]
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In the absence of empirical confirmation, scientists judge a theory's chances of being viable based on a wide range of arguments. The paper argues that such arguments can differ substantially with regard to their structural similarity to empirical confirmation. Arguments that resemble empirical confirmation in a number of crucial respects provide a better basis for reliable judgement and can, in a Bayesian sense, amount to significant non-empirical confirmation. It is shown that three kinds of non-empirical confirmation that have been specified in earlier work do satisfy those conditions.
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| Additional Information: | To appear in the book "Why Trust a Theory? Epistemology of Fundamental Physics", Cambridge University Press. | ||||||
| Keywords: | confirmation; underdetermination; string theory; Bayesianism; non-empirical | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Richard Dawid | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 01 May 2018 13:53 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 01 May 2018 13:53 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 14630 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity |
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| Date: | April 2018 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14630 |
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