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Jan 22, 2016 · Arguing that naturalness can and should be understood in light of a dispositional ontology, the book offers a point of view where the gap between instrumental and ethical perspectives can be...
Sep 25, 2024 · The proposal reuses ideas from Lewis’ Best Systems Account of laws of nature, but rather than invoking natural concepts (as Lewis does) defines natural scientific concepts as those that figure in the or a best systematization of the totality of facts.
- Igor Douven
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In this period the Standard Model slowly emerged, the methods of the renormalization group and of spontaneous symmetry breaking were studied, and at times combined to try and predict some values of masses and coupling constants. Although attempts of this kind were often described as simple or elegant, the term “natural” was increasingly used in thi...
By 1980 the Standard Model was fully established, but the search for alternative theories of particles went on, with a broad range of proposals to embed the Standard Model into a more unified theory (e.g. grand unified theories, supersymmetry, technicolor). The main strategy to support one or the other of these proposals was to refer to the existen...
In the 1980s supersymmetry established itself as a most promising solution to the naturalness problem, and LEP results were widely expected to provide evidence in its favor. After LEP results failed to fulfill the expectations, some versions of the naturalness problem were redefined in terms of fine-tuning and continued to serve as a heuristic guid...
This is the period we are in, which Gian Francesco Giudice proposed to characterize as a “post-naturalness era” . LHC results, confirming the predictions of the Standard Model and providing no evidence of new physics, have started increasingly heated discussions on naturalness.
- Arianna Borrelli, Elena Castellani
- 2019
For example, naturalness is defined as “from nature; not artificial or involving anything made or caused by people” (Cambridge Dictionary) and “existing in or formed by nature”...
- Sydney E Scott, Paul Rozin
- 2020
naturalness of unnatural entities. The present study explored naturalness in terms of a set of four specific hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: The principle of contagion accounts for much of the reduction in naturalness following additions. Hypothesis 2: Chemical transformations are more potent than physical transformations in reducing naturalness.
attempted to define what naturalness is using the terms ‘naturalness’, ‘nature’ and often, ‘wilderness’, interchangeably. Below, we compile definitions of naturalness proposed by these foundational thinkers on the topic. Our purpose is to outline the range of
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This summary provides an overview of how ideas about naturalness have been discussed within previous reports of the Nuffield Council and how different working parties have viewed naturalness and its usefulness in informing ethical perspectives on advances in science, technology and medicine.
