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The Evidence for the Top Quark: Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative Experimentation - Couverture souple

Staley, Kent W.

 
9780521174251: The Evidence for the Top Quark: Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative Experimentation
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521174252 ISBN 13 : 9780521174251
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

The Evidence for the Top Quark offers both a historical and philosophical perspective on an important recent discovery in particle physics: evidence for the elementary particle known as the top quark. Drawing on published reports, oral histories, and internal documents from the large collaboration that performed the experiment, Kent Staley explores in detail the controversies and politics that surrounded this major scientific result. At the same time the book seeks to defend an objective theory of scientific evidence based on error probabilities. Such a theory provides an illuminating explication of the points of contention in the debate over the evidence for the top quark. Philosophers wishing to defend the objectivity of the results of scientific research must face unflinchingly the realities of scientific practice, and this book attempts to do precisely that.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The Evidence for the Top Quark offers both a historical and philosophical perspective on an important recent discovery in particle physics: evidence for the elementary particle known as the top quark. Drawing on published reports, oral histories, and internal documents from the large collaboration that performed the experiment, Kent Staley explores in detail the controversies and politics that surrounded this major scientific result. At the same time the book seeks to defend an objective theory of scientific evidence based on error probabilities. Such a theory provides an illuminating explication of the points of contention in the debate over the evidence for the top quark. Philosophers wishing to defend the objectivity of the results of scientific research must face unflinchingly the realities of scientific practice, and this book attempts to do precisely that.

Revue de presse

Review of the hardback: '... a significant contribution to the history and philosophy of both experiment and science.' Allen Franklin, University of Colorado at Boulder, author of The Neglect of Experiment

Review of the hardback: 'It should become a model of how philosophers do a case study in the history of science ... The philosophy, history and sociology are fully integrated. All in all, it's a wonderful book.' Craig Callender, University of California, San Diego

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521174252
ISBN 13 
9780521174251
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
360
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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