Speaker
Radin Dardashti
(U. Wuppertal)
Description
The everyday practice of physicists is to a large extent determined by the scientific problems they are confronted with. The conceptual analysis of scientific problems and how they change, therefore, may allow for a fine-grained investigation of the development of a scientific discipline. In this talk I discuss what constitutes a scientific problem, what its elements are and how they change. I will illustrate the advantages of a more problem-focused approach in understanding the development of modern particle physics and provide a perspective that may shed some light in the assessment of open problems and whether they constitute “genuine” problems.
Author
Radin Dardashti
(U. Wuppertal)
