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- W2335975286 abstract "Philosophers of science generally assume that theorizing is boundless in principle but in fact constrained mostly by the phenomena. Theories that violate empirical constraints are weeded out in the scientific process. String theory research, which unifies the four fundamental forces in nature and postulates strings as the smallest physical unit, is different: in its current form, string theory makes no empirical predictions. Still, string theory research has enjoyed great popularity in the community of high-energy physics theoreticians for decades. In fact, string theory ismore popular than any other approach that attempts to unify gravity with the principles of quantum mechanics. Given the lack of empirical constraints, this surely seems odd. One way of viewing the situation is it to hold on to the standard view of the relation between theorizing and empirical constraints. The popularity of string theory is then an unhealthy anomaly, which can be explained sociologically as resulting from the influence of certain individuals and herd behavior (for such views, seePenrose 2004; Smolin 2007;Woit 2011).RichardDawid, in his rich book String Theory and the Scientific Method, has set himself a much more demanding task. Instead of castigating string theory research, Dawid asks how we could perhaps extend our idea of the scientific method so as to incorporate string theory research. Dawid’s book consists of three parts. In the first part, he argues that, even in the absence of any direct empirical tests, theorizing in the context of string theory is not as unconstrained as one might think. In the second part, Dawid suggests that string theory research is not so special after all: it can be viewed as the end point of a historical trend toward an ever greater distance between" @default.
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- W2335975286 title "A Theory of EverythingRichard Dawid,String Theory and the Scientific Method. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2014), 212 pp., $29.99." @default.
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