Confidence in consciousness research

M Michel - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To study (un) conscious perception and test hypotheses about consciousness, researchers
need procedures for determining whether subjects consciously perceive stimuli or not. This …

[HTML][HTML] Measurement in science

E Tal - 2015 - plato.stanford.edu
Measurement is an integral part of modern science as well as of engineering, commerce,
and daily life. Measurement is often considered a hallmark of the scientific enterprise and a …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond generalization: a theory of robustness in machine learning

T Freiesleben, T Grote - Synthese, 2023 - Springer
The term robustness is ubiquitous in modern Machine Learning (ML). However, its meaning
varies depending on context and community. Researchers either focus on narrow technical …

Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class

AM Phillips, EJ Gouvea, BE Gravel, PH Beachemin… - Physical Review Physics …, 2023 - APS
Computation is intertwined with essentially all aspects of physics research and is invaluable
for physicists' careers. Despite its disciplinary importance, integration of computation into …

Why trust a simulation? Models, parameters, and robustness in simulation-infected experiments

FJ Boge - 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Computer simulations are nowadays often directly involved in the generation of
experimental results. Given this dependency of experiments on computer simulations, that of …

[HTML][HTML] What is a data model? An anatomy of data analysis in high energy physics

A Antoniou - European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Many decades ago Patrick Suppes argued rather convincingly that theoretical
hypotheses are not confronted with the direct, raw results of an experiment, rather, they are …

On the meaning of measurement uncertainty

F Grégis - Measurement, 2019 - Elsevier
This article discusses the definitions of “measurement uncertainty” given in the three editions
of the International Vocabulary of Metrology (VIM) and a fourth definition which was …

Model choice and crucial tests. On the empirical epistemology of the Higgs discovery

P Mättig, M Stöltzner - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B …, 2019 - Elsevier
Our paper discusses the epistemic attitudes of particle physicists on the discovery of the
Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is based on questionnaires and …

[HTML][HTML] How uncertainty can save measurement from circularity and holism

S Ritson, K Staley - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2021 - Elsevier
Measurement results depend upon assumptions, and some of those assumptions are
theoretical in character. This paper examines particle physics measurements in which a …

[HTML][HTML] Probing novelty at the LHC: Heuristic appraisal of disruptive experimentation

S Ritson - Studies in history and philosophy of science Part B …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper,'novelty'is explored through a recent historical episode from high energy
experimental physics to offer an understanding of novelty as disruption. I call this the '750 …