3 papers
physics.hist-ph2025
Rationally warranted promise: the virtue-economic account of pursuit-worthiness
Patrick M. Duerr, Enno Fischer
Pursuing a scientific idea is often justified by the promise associated with it. Philosophers of science have proposed a variety of approaches to such promise, including more speci…
physics.hist-ph2025
Promising Stabs in the Dark: Theory Virtues and Pursuit-Worthiness in the Dark Energy Problem
William J. Wolf, Patrick M. Duerr
This paper argues that we ought to conceive of the Dark Energy problem -- the question of how to account for observational data, naturally interpreted as accelerated expansion of t…
physics.hist-ph2024
The Change-Driver Account of Scientific Discovery: Philosophical and Historical Dimensions of the Discovery of the Expanding Universe
Patrick M. Duerr, Abigail Holmes Mills
This paper critically examines the models of scientific discovery propounded by Kuhn, McArthur, Hudson, and Schindler. As an alternative, we proffer the $\unicode{x201c}$change$\un…