Scientific Realism and High Energy Physics

In Juha Saatsi (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Realism. Routledge. pp. 279-290 (2018)
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The paper discusses major implications of high energy physics for the scientific realism debate. The first part analyses the ways in which aspects of the empirically well-confirmed standard model of particle physics are relevant for a reassessment of entity realism, ontological realism and structural realism. The second part looks at the implications of more far-reaching concepts like string theory. While those theories have not found empirical confirmation, if they turned out viable, their implications for the realism debate would be more substantial than those of the standard model.

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