A Network Account of Models in High Energy Physics Experiments
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Published:2023-05-29
Issue:4
Volume:90
Page:777-796
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ISSN:0031-8248
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Container-title:Philosophy of Science
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Philos. sci.
Abstract
AbstractI propose an account of the model-based structure of the present-day high energy physics experiments in which the relations among the theoretical, experimental and simulation models constitute a non-linear structure that is akin to a network of models (NoM). I argue that while the proposed NoM subsumes Suppes’ hierarchy of models (HoM) as the model-based characterization of the inference leading from the data to the validity or invalidity of the hypothesis tested in an experiment, it involves a model-based characterization of the inference leading from the collision of particles to the acquisition of data, which is missing in Suppes’ HoM.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,Philosophy,History