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The Light at the End of the Tunneling: Observation and Underdetermination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Michael Dickson
Michael Dickson*
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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†History and Philosophy of Science, 130 Goodbody Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
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Abstract

If observation is ‘theory-laden’, how can there be ‘observationally equivalent theories’? How can the observations ‘laden’ by one theory be ‘the same as’ those ‘laden’ by another? The answer might lie in the expressibility of observationally equivalent theories in a common mathematical formalism.

Type
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 66 , Issue S3: Supplement. Proceedings of the 1998 Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association. Part I: Contributed Papers Sep., 1999 , 1999 , pp. S47 - S58
Copyright
Copyright © 1999 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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Thanks to audiences at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana University, and PSA 1998 for helpful questions and comments on earlier versions or portions of this paper. Thanks especially to Don Howard, Michael Friedman, and Noretta Koertge for their comments and questions.

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