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SUMMARY:All possible perspectives: a defence of Eddington's selective subj
 ectivism - Dean Rickles (University of Sydney)
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CONTACT:Vashka dos Remedios
DESCRIPTION:Eddington's astrophysical acumen is beyond doubt. However\, fo
 r much of his later life he was developing a highly original and rather au
 dacious philosophical picture of physical science according to which all f
 undamental laws\, including the constants and parameters appearing therein
 \, are\nepistemological in origin. This picture (blending observer selecti
 on bias and structuralism) was\, with a few notable exceptions\, roundly c
 ondemned by philosophers and physicists alike. In this talk I attempt a (p
 artial) defence of Eddington's philosophy of science\, focusing on the cen
 trality of observation and observables in his work and on the overlap betw
 een this and recent work on the interpretation of general relativity.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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