Philosophy
- Putting Cosmology In Its Place...a Good Thing
It is comforting to know that I am not alone in these views. Abstract... Cosmology differs in some respects significantly from other sciences, primarily because of its intimate association with issues of a conceptual and philosophical nature. Because...
- "criteria Of Science, Cosmology, And Lessons Of History"...an Interesting Paper By Helge Kragh
Abstract... Perhaps more than any other science, cosmology exemplifies the inevitable contact between science and philosophy, including the problem of the demarcation criteria that distinguish science from non-science. Although modern physical cosmology...
- Observational Cosmology...edwin Hubble And Harlow Shapley
Abstract: Observational cosmology of the first decades of the Twentieth Century was dominated by two giants: Edwin Hubble and Harlow Shapley. Hubble's major contributions were to the study and classification of individual galaxies with large telescopes,...
- L. Krauss And Cosmology
Looks like Lawrence Krauss [The Physics of Star Trek] has written a paper on man and cosmology. Abstract: Cosmological discoveries over the past century have completely changed our picture of our place in the universe. New observations have a realistic...
- Astronomy: Classic Debates
Being the year of astronomy it would be worthwhile to review some of the great debates of the past: The 1921 debate between Harlow Shapley and Herber Curtis in 1921 and the cosmological debates of the 1930s and 1940s. Of the latter from the Stanford...
Philosophy
Assumptions and limits of contemporary cosmology
Bias is part of cosmological epistemology...
"Of course, science is not simply based on observation and experiment so innocently. If science were naively based on observation and experiment, the science as we know now may not be possible. On the contrary, science in reality is more related with the art of ignoring and selecting observations, and manipulating experiments, in accordance with a preconceived theory."
Abstract...
Physical cosmology tries to understand the Universe at large with its origin and evolution. Observational and experimental situations in cosmology do not allow us to proceed purely based on the empirical means. We examine in which sense our cosmological assumptions in fact have shaped our current cosmological worldview with consequent inevitable limits. Cosmology, as other branches of science and knowledge, is a construct of human imagination reflecting the popular belief system of the era. The question at issue deserves further philosophic discussions. In Whitehead’s words, “philosophy, in one of its functions, is the critic of cosmologies.”
"Of course, science is not simply based on observation and experiment so innocently. If science were naively based on observation and experiment, the science as we know now may not be possible. On the contrary, science in reality is more related with the art of ignoring and selecting observations, and manipulating experiments, in accordance with a preconceived theory."
Abstract...
Physical cosmology tries to understand the Universe at large with its origin and evolution. Observational and experimental situations in cosmology do not allow us to proceed purely based on the empirical means. We examine in which sense our cosmological assumptions in fact have shaped our current cosmological worldview with consequent inevitable limits. Cosmology, as other branches of science and knowledge, is a construct of human imagination reflecting the popular belief system of the era. The question at issue deserves further philosophic discussions. In Whitehead’s words, “philosophy, in one of its functions, is the critic of cosmologies.”
"MODERN COSMOLOGY: ASSUMPTIONS AND LIMITS" by Jai-chan Hwang
- Putting Cosmology In Its Place...a Good Thing
It is comforting to know that I am not alone in these views. Abstract... Cosmology differs in some respects significantly from other sciences, primarily because of its intimate association with issues of a conceptual and philosophical nature. Because...
- "criteria Of Science, Cosmology, And Lessons Of History"...an Interesting Paper By Helge Kragh
Abstract... Perhaps more than any other science, cosmology exemplifies the inevitable contact between science and philosophy, including the problem of the demarcation criteria that distinguish science from non-science. Although modern physical cosmology...
- Observational Cosmology...edwin Hubble And Harlow Shapley
Abstract: Observational cosmology of the first decades of the Twentieth Century was dominated by two giants: Edwin Hubble and Harlow Shapley. Hubble's major contributions were to the study and classification of individual galaxies with large telescopes,...
- L. Krauss And Cosmology
Looks like Lawrence Krauss [The Physics of Star Trek] has written a paper on man and cosmology. Abstract: Cosmological discoveries over the past century have completely changed our picture of our place in the universe. New observations have a realistic...
- Astronomy: Classic Debates
Being the year of astronomy it would be worthwhile to review some of the great debates of the past: The 1921 debate between Harlow Shapley and Herber Curtis in 1921 and the cosmological debates of the 1930s and 1940s. Of the latter from the Stanford...