The experimenters’ regressa conceptual and historical evaluation
- Zuppone, Romina
- José Antonio Díez Calzada Director/a
Universidad de defensa: Universitat de Barcelona
Fecha de defensa: 18 de diciembre de 2018
- Julian Reiss Presidente/a
- Harold Carl Hoefer Secretario/a
- David Teira Serrano Vocal
Tipo: Tesis
Resumen
The goal of this thesis is to show, against Harry Collins, that there are scientific and internal grounds for the resolution of controversies in experimental practice. The approach I take is twofold: On the one hand, I develop a semantics of experimental results that seeks to show the dependence of experimental results upon theoretical knowledge and how this can be used as a conceptual way out of the experimenters' regress. On the other hand, I review, discuss, and propose an alternative reading to the cases studies Collins proposes as evidence of the external resolution of the experimenters' regress