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@INPROCEEDINGS{Mner:318131,
      author       = {Mößner, Nicola},
      title        = {{L}et’s have a look – observations, theories,
                      philosophical troubles},
      school       = {Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY},
      reportid     = {PUBDB-2017-01125},
      year         = {2017},
      abstract     = {What is the aim of science? Some would say that scientists
                      want to offer true de-scriptions of the world. Apparently,
                      scientific observations and experiments help toachieve this
                      aim. They yield data to check scientific hypotheses. But do
                      we reallyhave decisive evidence at our disposal?
                      Observational and experimental practicescrucially depend on
                      instruments of different kinds. For example, the discovery
                      ofthe Higgs boson did not only presuppose the world‘s
                      largest particle accelerator,the LHC, but also various
                      detecting technologies. This discovery seems to be a
                      bigsuccess in the history of science. Other experimental
                      results, however, that were noless depending on scientific
                      instruments and formerly also regarded as
                      importantscientific achievements turned out to be complete
                      failures. For instance, no astro­physicist talks about
                      Martian canals today. They were artefacts of
                      observationalpractices – of biased interpretations. Yet
                      what exactly tells us that the detection ofthe Higgs boson
                      wasn‘t similarly biased?This talk is an introduction to
                      the problem of theory-ladenness of observationwhich is
                      lurking in the background. What exactly is it about? How is
                      it related tothe social embedding of scientific practices?},
      organization  = {SFB-676 Student Council Evening
                       Lecture, Hamburg (Germany)},
      subtyp        = {Invited},
      pnm          = {SFB 676-MGK - Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG)
                      (DFG-SFB-676-MGK)},
      pid          = {G:(GEPRIS)13245592-MGK},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)31},
      doi          = {10.3204/PUBDB-2017-01125},
      url          = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/318131},
}