Chasova, Valeriya (2018) Local symmetries with direct empirical status, gauge symmetries, and the empirical approach. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

I use the empirical approach to the direct empirical status (DES) to clarify the question of which theoretical symmetries have DES. I prove in particular that if a global symmetry has the identifiable observational DES by virtue of representing observable features of an identifiable empirical symmetry, then using gauge symmetries a local symmetry with the same DES can always be constructed. I explain why this demonstrates that currently we should take local symmetries to be at least as much relevant for the ontology as global symmetries are.

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Item Type:	Other
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Chasova, Valeriya 0000-0002-3558-5825
Additional Information:	This is a de-anonymised version of the text which got a 2nd place in the 2018 competition for the Young Researchers Prize of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences (SPS).
Keywords:	Symmetry; Ontology; Direct empirical status; Direct empirical significance
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances General Issues > Theory/Observation
Depositing User:	Dr Valeriya Chasova
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2020 03:10
Last Modified:	15 Jul 2020 03:10
Item ID:	17470
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances General Issues > Theory/Observation
Date:	1 March 2018
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17470

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