Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Historical and Conceptual Background
- Part II Theory Assessment beyond Empirical Confirmation
- Part III Cosmology and Testability
- Part IV Prospects for Confirmation in String Theory
- 18 String Theory to the Rescue
- 19 Why Trust a Theory? Some Further Remarks
- 20 The Dangerous Irrelevance of String Theory
- 21 String/M-Theories about Our World Are Testable in the Traditional Physics Way
- 22 Is String Phenomenology an Oxymoron?
- Index
19 - Why Trust a Theory? Some Further Remarks
from Part IV - Prospects for Confirmation in String Theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2019
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Historical and Conceptual Background
- Part II Theory Assessment beyond Empirical Confirmation
- Part III Cosmology and Testability
- Part IV Prospects for Confirmation in String Theory
- 18 String Theory to the Rescue
- 19 Why Trust a Theory? Some Further Remarks
- 20 The Dangerous Irrelevance of String Theory
- 21 String/M-Theories about Our World Are Testable in the Traditional Physics Way
- 22 Is String Phenomenology an Oxymoron?
- Index
Summary
based philosophical proposal. This chapter will discuss this issue, considering
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- Why Trust a Theory?Epistemology of Fundamental Physics, pp. 354 - 364Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019