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• catalog abstract "In this collection of essays Allan Franklin defends the view that science provides us with knowledge about the world which is based on experimental evidence and on reasoned and critical discussion. In short, he argues that science is a reasonable enterprise. Case studies are then used to examine issues such as how discord between experimental results is resolved, calibration of an experimental apparatus and its legitimate use in validating an experimental result, and how experimental results provide reasonable grounds for belief in both the truth of physical theories and in the existence of the entities involved in those theories. This book is a challenge to the critics of science, both postmodern and constructivist, to provide convincing alternative explanations of the episodes and issues discussed. It should be of interest to philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science, and to scientists themselves.".
• catalog contributor b11059904.
• catalog created "1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
• catalog description "Case studies are then used to examine issues such as how discord between experimental results is resolved, calibration of an experimental apparatus and its legitimate use in validating an experimental result, and how experimental results provide reasonable grounds for belief in both the truth of physical theories and in the existence of the entities involved in those theories. This book is a challenge to the critics of science, both postmodern and constructivist, to provide convincing alternative explanations of the episodes and issues discussed. It should be of interest to philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science, and to scientists themselves.".
• catalog description "In this collection of essays Allan Franklin defends the view that science provides us with knowledge about the world which is based on experimental evidence and on reasoned and critical discussion. In short, he argues that science is a reasonable enterprise.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: Constructivism, Postmodernism, and Science -- Ch. 1. How to Avoid the Experimenters' Regress -- Ch. 2. The Appearance and Disappearance of the 17-Kev Neutrino -- Ch. 3. Instrumental Loyalty and the Recycling of Expertise -- Ch. 4. The Rise of the "Fifth Force" -- Ch. 5. There are no Antirealists in the Laboratory -- Ch. 6. Discovery, Pursuit, and Justification -- Ch. 7. The Resolution of Discordant Results -- Ch. 8. Calibration -- Ch. 9. Laws and Experiment.".
• catalog extent "ix, 313 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Can that be right?".
• catalog identifier "0792354648 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Can that be right?".
• catalog isPartOf "Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 199".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Boston : Kluwer,".
• catalog relation "Can that be right?".
• catalog subject "001/.01 s 501 21".
• catalog subject "Q174 .B67 vol. 199 Q175".
• catalog subject "Science Experiments Philosophy Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Science Experiments Philosophy.".
• catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Constructivism, Postmodernism, and Science -- Ch. 1. How to Avoid the Experimenters' Regress -- Ch. 2. The Appearance and Disappearance of the 17-Kev Neutrino -- Ch. 3. Instrumental Loyalty and the Recycling of Expertise -- Ch. 4. The Rise of the "Fifth Force" -- Ch. 5. There are no Antirealists in the Laboratory -- Ch. 6. Discovery, Pursuit, and Justification -- Ch. 7. The Resolution of Discordant Results -- Ch. 8. Calibration -- Ch. 9. Laws and Experiment.".
• catalog title "Can that be right? : essays on experiment, evidence, and science / by Allan Franklin.".
• catalog type "Case studies. fast".
• catalog type "text".