کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1161110 1490426 2015 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Computer simulations and experiments: The case of the Higgs boson
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
شبیه سازی های رایانه و آزمایشات: مورد بوزون هیگز
کلمات کلیدی
شبیه سازی؛ آزمایش؛ Giere؛ مورگان؛ موریسون؛ بوزون هیگز
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه فیزیک و نجوم فیزیک و نجوم (عمومی)
چکیده انگلیسی

Simulations have been at the center of an important literature that has debated the extent to which they count as epistemologically on a par with traditional experiments. Critics have raised doubts about simulations being genuine experiments, on the ground that simulations seem to lack a distinctive feature of traditional experiments: i.e., the ability to causally interact with a target system. In this paper, we defend the view that simulations are indeed epistemologically on a par with traditional experiments. We first identify three possible ways of understanding the causal interaction claim. We then focus on the use of simulation in the discovery of the Higgs boson to show that in this paradigmatic case, simulations satisfy all three possible readings of the causal interaction claim.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics - Volume 51, August 2015, Pages 71–81
نویسندگان
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