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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-ph2023
Cosmological Inflation and Meta-Empirical Theory Assessment
William J. Wolf
I apply Dawid's Meta-Empirical Assessment (MEA) methodology to the theory of cosmological inflation. I argue that applying this methodology does not currently offer a compelling ca…