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Perspectival Realism

Perspectival Realism

Science, Knowledge, and Truth from a Human Vantage Point

Perspectival Realism
Perspectival Realism

Integrating scientific practice in Particle Physics…

Stage One of the project looks at how contemporary physicists deal with the perspectival nature of modelling in Particle Physics and in cosmology.

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CMS detector at CERN
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…Observational Cosmology…

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The Blanco Telescope used in the Dark Energy Survey
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…with the History of Science…

Stage Two of the project examines the role of perspectivalism in measurement and experimental techniques at play in salient scientific controversies across the history of Science.

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J.J. Thomson and the discovery of the electron via cathode rays

…the History of Philosophy…

Stage Three of the project assesses the emergence of perspectivalism as a distinctive mode of scientific inquiry in  eighteenth-century Philosophy.

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A Philosopher giving a Lecture on the Orrery by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1766
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…and Philosophy of Science

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Albrecht Dürer, Underweysung der Messung 1525

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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement European Consolidator Grant H2020-ERC-2014-CoG 647272). Principal Investigator: Michela Massimi, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

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