Philosophy of Astrophysics
This PDF covers the following topics related to Astrochemistry :
Introduction, Theory, Observation, and the Relation Between Them, Laboratory
Astrophysics: Lessons for Epistemology of Astrophysics, A Crack in the Track of
the Hubble Constant, Theory Testing in Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics, Hybrid
Enrichment of Theory and Observation in Next-Generation Stellar Population
Synthesis, Doing More with Less: Dark Matter & Modified Gravity, Models and
Simulations, Stellar Structure Models Revisited: Evidence and Data in
Asteroseismology, Idealizations in Astrophysical Computer Simulations,
Simulation Verification in Practice, Do We Learn from Code Comparisons A
Case Study of Self-Interacting Dark Matter Implementations, Simulation and
Experiment Revisited: Temporal Data in Astronomy and Astrophysics, What’s in a
Survey? Simulation-Induced Selection Effects in Astronomy, On the Epistemology
of Observational Black Hole Astrophysics, Black Holes and Analogy, Extragalactic
Reality Revisited: Astrophysics and Entity Realism, Concluding Thoughts,
Reflections by a Theoretical Astrophysicist.
Author(s): Nora Mills Boyd, Siska De Baerdemaeker, Kevin Heng,
Vera Matarese
330 Pages