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1 online resource (xii, 311 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-301) and index. |
| Contents |
Toward a more developed philosophy of scientific experimentation / Hans Radder -- The materiality of instruments in a metaphysics for experiments / Rom Harré -- Thing knowledge: outline of a materialist theory of knowledge / Davis Baird -- Physics, experiments, and the concept of nature / Peter Kroes -- Experimentation, causal inference, and instrumental realism / Jim Woodward -- Technology as basis and object of experimental practices / Rainer Lange -- Theory-ladenness and scientific instruments in experimentation / Michael Heidelberger -- Technology and theory in experimental science / Hans Radder -- The idols of experiment: transcending the "etc. list" / Giora Hon -- Models, simulation, and "computer experiments" / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Experiments without material intervention: model experiments, virtual experiments, and virtually experiments / Mary S. Morgan -- Designing instruments and the design of nature / Daniel Rothbart -- Varying the cognitive span: experimentation, visualization, and computation / David Gooding. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science -- Experiments -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Experiments -- Philosophy. |
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Science -- Experiments. |
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Science -- Methodology -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Methodology -- Philosophy. |
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Science -- Methodology. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Radder, Hans.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Philosophy of scientific experimentation. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2003 0822957957 (DLC) 2002014515 (OCoLC)50606388 |
| ISBN |
9780822972396 electronic book |
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0822972395 electronic book |
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0822957957 |
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9780822957959 |
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