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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…
physics.hist-ph2023★ 3 cited
The Virtues of Pursuit-Worthy Speculation: The Promises of Cosmic Inflation
William J. Wolf, Patrick M. Duerr
The paper investigates the historical and contemporary pursuit-worthiness of cosmic inflation-the rationale for working on it (rather than necessarily the evidential support for cl…
physics.hist-ph2023★ 22 cited
Methodological Reflections on the MOND/Dark Matter Debate
Patrick M. Duerr, William J. Wolf
The paper re-examines the principal methodological questions, arising in the debate over the cosmological standard model's postulate of Dark Matter vs. rivalling proposals that mod…