Lazutkina, Anastasiia (2026) How Evidence Is Made: Measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background before Discovering It. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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This paper addresses the problem of how empirical results come to bear on theory as evidence. I argue that no single recent account captures the full answer. Leonelli (2015, 2016, 2019) explains how empirical outputs acquire evidential roles within inquiry, Boyd (2018a, 2018b) how they become enriched and usable as empirical constraints, while Stein (1994) and Curiel (forthcoming) give a condition on how a physical theory acquires empirical content. The 1965 discovery of the cosmic microwave background is used to show that these conditions can come apart historically and that evidence requires their conjunction.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Lazutkina, Anastasiia lazutkina@uni-wuppertal.de
Keywords:	evidence, data, cosmic microwave background, schematizing the observer
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > Evidence General Issues > History of Science Case Studies
Depositing User:	Mrs Anastasiia Lazutkina
Date Deposited:	31 May 2026 12:48
Last Modified:	31 May 2026 12:48
Item ID:	29834
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > Evidence General Issues > History of Science Case Studies
Date:	30 May 2026
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/29834

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