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The Significance of Non-Empirical Confirmation in Fundamental Physics
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1472-2958
Number of Authors: 12019 (English)In: Why Trust a Theory? Epistemology of Fundamental Physics / [ed] Radin Dardashti; Richard Dawid; Karim Thebault, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, p. 99-119Chapter in book (Refereed)
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In the absence of empirical confirmation, scientists may judge a theory's chances of being viable based on a wide range of arguments. This chapter 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 judgment 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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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. p. 99-119
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-185052DOI: 10.1017/9781108671224.009ISBN: 9781108671224 (electronic)ISBN: 9781108470957 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-185052DiVA, id: diva2:1467325
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VR Project 1598801 Non-Empirical Theory Confirmation in Fundamental PhysicsAvailable from: 2020-09-15 Created: 2020-09-15 Last updated: 2024-09-30Bibliographically approved

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