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MCMPNon-empirical ConfirmationRichard Dawid (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Non-empirical Confirmation". Abstract: The talk will analyse reasons for the high degree of trust many physicists have developed in empirically unconfirmed theories. An extension of the concept of theory confirmation (to be called “non-empirical confirmation”) will be suggested that allows for confirmation by observations that are not predicted by the theory in question. The last part of the talk will address a number of worries that have been raised with respect to this approach.2018-03-1300 minMCMPPhysics without Experiments?Radin Dardashti (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "Physics without Experiments?". Abstract: Most of the fundamental theories in modern physics are relevant at energy scales or length scales where empirical access is currently hard to obtain. Accounts of theory assessment within the philosophy of science literature are, however, usually concerned with the relation between the theory and the empirical data they predict. So these “traditional” approaches seem not to allow for theory assessment in these cases. Recently, Richard Dawid has developed an account of non-empirical theory assessment, which uses evidence not...2018-03-1300 minMCMPOpening WordsOpening Words by Richard Dawid (MCMP/LMU), Stephan Hartmann (MCMP/LMU) and Dieter Lüst (LMU) at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015).2018-03-1300 minMCMP – Philosophy of ScienceString Theory and the Scientific MethodRichard Dawid (Vienna) gives a talk at the CAS Research Focus Series „Reduction and Emergence“ (13 November, 2013) titled "String Theory and the Scientific Method" (host: Stephan Hartmann (MCMP/LMU)). Abstract: For the last thirty years, string theory has played a highly influential role in fundamental physics without having found empirical confirmation. The presentation will analyze reasons for the high degree of trust many physicists have developed in a theory that, according to classical standards of theory assessment, would have to be called an unconfirmed speculation. It will be argued that the case of string theory suggests a new perspective on our unde...2014-02-2154 minMCMP – Philosophy of PhysicsComment on Richard Dawid's "String Theory and Scientific Realism"Radin Dardashti (MCMP/LMU) comments on Richard Dawid's "String Theory and Scientific Realism" at the MCMP workshop "Quantum Gravity in Perspective" (31 May-1 June, 2013).2013-10-0900 min
MCMP – Mathematical Philosophy (Archive 2011/12)Comments on "The No Alternatives Argument" (Dawid, Hartmann, Sprenger)Frederik Herzberg (Bielefeld, MCMP/LMU) comments on "The No Alternatives Argument" (by Richard Dawid, Stephan Hartmann, and Jan Sprenger) at the 9th Formal Epistemology Workshop (Munich, May 29–June 2, 2012).2012-09-1615 min