暗物质实在论
Dark Matter Realism
摘要：
根据宇宙学的标准模型LambdaCDM，宇宙现阶段的质能收支并不是由我们所熟悉的发光物质主导，而是由某种形式的暗物质（和暗能量）主导。因此，采用科学实在论来研究暗物质是很有诱惑力的。然而，对这个实体的无数可能属性几乎没有任何限制-甚至不能确定它是物质的一种形式。鉴于这种不确定性，我主张谨慎：我们（目前）还不应该成为暗物质现实主义者。我心目中的“还没有”实在论不同于哈金（1989）的反实在论，因为它是语义的而不是认识论的。它也不同于逻辑唯物主义的语义反实在论，因为它是自然主义的，因此它可能只是暂时的，并不自动适用于所有其他不可观测的（甚至只是适用于所有其他天文学不可观测的，如哈金的反实在论）。这个论点可以用基因概念的更长历史来类比，因为暗物质概念的当前状态在某些相关方面类似于早期的基因概念。
英文摘要：
According to the standard model of cosmology, LambdaCDM, the mass-energy budget of the current stage of the universe is not dominated by the luminous matter that we are familiar with, but instead by some form of dark matter (and dark energy). It is thus tempting to adopt scientific realism about dark matter. However, there are barely any constraints on the myriad of possible properties of this entity -- it is not even certain that it is a form of matter. In light of this underdetermination I advocate caution: we should not (yet) be dark matter realists. The "not(-yet)-realism" that I have in mind is different from Hacking's (1989) anti-realism, in that it is semantic rather than epistemological. It also differs from the semantic anti-realism of logical empiricism, in that it is naturalistic, such that it may only be temporary and does not automatically apply to all other unobservables (or even just to all other astronomical unobservables, as with Hacking's anti-realism). The argument is illustrated with the analogy of the much longer history of the concept of a gene, as the current state of the concept of dark matter resembles in some relevant ways that of the early concept of genes.
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