Realism and the detection of dark matter.
A number of philosophers claim that realism about dark matter in cosmology is unwarranted because there has been no empirical confirmation of a dark matter particle. This demand is misguided. I argue that we should take the theoretical concept of dark matter as described in our best cosmological mod...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 204; no. 3; pp. 1 - 19 |
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Sep2024
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