The Higgs discovery as a diagnostic causal inference

A Wüthrich - Synthese, 2017 - Springer
I reconstruct the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS collaboration at CERN as the
application of a series of inferences from effects to causes. I show to what extent such …

Heisenberg's Umdeutung: A Case for a (Quantum-)Dialogue Between History and Philosophy of Science

A Wüthrich - The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Mara Beller (1999) argued that Heisenberg's declared heuristics of eliminating
unobservables was, more than anything else, a rhetoric strategy to defend his theoretical …