Jutta Schickore
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1056589 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jutta Schickore |
| NOMBRES | Jutta |
| APELLIDO | Schickore |
| FIRMA | SCHICKORE J |
| AFILIACIONES | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0275-4175 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Traditions of Analysis and Synthesis
Parasites, Pepsin, Pus, and Postulates
The German anatomist and pathologist Jakob Henle's essay on miasma and miasmatic-contagious diseases is considered a medical classic. Nevertheless, it has rarely been analyzed in depth. If at all, it has been read as foreshadowing Robert Koch's "postulates," the famous set of criteria for identifying pathogens. This reading has created misunderstandings of Henle's own work on miasma and miasmatic-contagious diseases and impeded our understanding …
Methodological ideas in past experimental inquiry
This paper discusses two methodological notions, the concepts Gegenprobe (countercheck) and Gegenversuch (counter-trial), which were widely applied, discussed, relied upon, and defended in German-language writings about empirical inquiry. In the decades around 1800, they were common in physiology; medicine; agriculture; chemistry; various technologies, such as printing, metallurgy, and mining; accounting; and legal and political argumentation. Th…
Mess in Science and Wicked Problems
This paper discusses the claim that science is “messy.” Part I argues first, that a good portion of today’s discussions about messy science is just a portrayal of familiar features of science in new terms. In the paper, I refer to this as “messy science talk.” Second, Part I draws out rhetorical functions of messy science talk, namely the denigration of science in the popular media and the celebration of the maverick. Part II identifies one way i…
The Structure and Function of Experimental Control in the Life Sciences
This article presents a new framework for the analysis of experimental control. The framework highlights different functions for experimental controls in the realization of an experiment: experimental controls that serve as tests and experimental controls that serve as probes. The approach to experimental control proposed here can illuminate the constitutive role of controls in knowledge production, and it sheds new light on the notion of explora…
Explication Work for Science and Philosophy
This article disentangles the various assumptions and expectations tied to case studies, to testing philosophy through cases, and to historical adequacy. Several notions of historical adequacy are distinguished: 1) adequacy to the standards of professional history of science, 2) historical accuracy, i.e. capturing the historical record, 3) relevance of historical episodes to the epistemic interests of philosophers of science, and 4) withstanding …
Exploratory experimentation” as a probe into the relation between historiography and philosophy of science
Robustness, solidity, and multiple determinations
Vom Nutzen der Historie für die Wissenschaftsphilosophie
Of the Merits of History for Philosophy of Science. This essay is inspired by some of the contributions to the two special issues “History of Science and Philosophy of Science” of the journal Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte . I consider possible roles of historical study for philosophy of science. The first part of the essay discusses contributions to the Anglo‐American debate about history and philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s. I…
What Does History Matter to Philosophy of Science? The Concept of Replication and the Methodology of Experiments
Scientists and philosophers generally agree that the replication of experiments is a key ingredient of good and successful scientific practice. "One-offs" are not significant; experiments must be replicable to be considered valid and important. But the term "replication" has been used in a number of ways, and it is therefore quite difficult to appraise the meaning and significance of replications. I consider how history may help - and has helped …
Trying Again and Again
This essay deals with a conspicuous feature of early modern experimental reports: references to multiple repetitions. I examine an episode from the history of research on venomous snakes, the dispute between Francesco Redi and Moyse Charas about the cause of death from viper bites. I identify different kinds of repetitions that are described and specify the various different roles that are attributed to repetitions in experimental reports. I argu…
Test Objects for Microscopes
Doing Science, Writing Science
This article identifies a fundamental distinction in scientific practice: the mismatch between what scientists do and what they state they did when they communicate their findings in their publications. The insight that such a mismatch exists is not new. It was already implied in Hans Reichenbach's distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification, and it is taken for granted across the board in philosophy of science and science stu…
Misperception, illusion and epistemological optimism
This article compares investigations of the process of vision that were made in early nineteenth-century Britain and the German lands. It is argued that vision studies differed significantly east and west of the North Sea. Most of the German investigators had a medical background and many of them had a firm grasp of contemporary philosophy. In contrast, the British studies on vision emerged from the context of optics. This difference manifested i…
Through thousands of errors we reach the truth’—but how? On the epistemic roles of error in scientific practice
The ‘philosophical grasp of the appearances’ and experimental microscopy
The Task of Explaining Sight - Helmholtz's Writings on Vision as a Test Case for Models of Science Popularization
ArgumentStudies of Helmholtz's popular lectures on science have concentrated on reconstructing his vision of the scientific enterprise, of its nature, its benefits, and its "civilizing power." This paper offers a different perspective by focusing on Helmholtz's attempts to expose his own scientific work to a wider public. Drawing on recent discussions about how to study science popularization, it analyzes how he made his work on sensory physiolog…
Locating Rods and Cones
The Argument This paper is concerned with the diversity of microscopic research in nineteenth-century life sciences. It examines how two researchers, Ernst Wilhelm Brücke and Heinrich Müller, investigated the structure and function of the retina. They did so in significantly different ways, thereby developing quite different accounts of this organ and its role in the process of vision. Both investigators were carrying out microscopic investigatio…
Membranes
Thinking about scientific thinking
Explication Work for Science and Philosophy
This article disentangles the various assumptions and expectations tied to case studies, to testing philosophy through cases, and to historical adequacy. Several notions of historical adequacy are distinguished: 1) adequacy to the standards of professional history of science, 2) historical accuracy, i.e. capturing the historical record, 3) relevance of historical episodes to the epistemic interests of philosophers of science, and 4) withstanding …
Mess in Science and Wicked Problems
This paper discusses the claim that science is “messy.” Part I argues first, that a good portion of today’s discussions about messy science is just a portrayal of familiar features of science in new terms. In the paper, I refer to this as “messy science talk.” Second, Part I draws out rhetorical functions of messy science talk, namely the denigration of science in the popular media and the celebration of the maverick. Part II identifies one way i…
Exploratory experimentation” as a probe into the relation between historiography and philosophy of science
Doing Science, Writing Science
This article identifies a fundamental distinction in scientific practice: the mismatch between what scientists do and what they state they did when they communicate their findings in their publications. The insight that such a mismatch exists is not new. It was already implied in Hans Reichenbach's distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification, and it is taken for granted across the board in philosophy of science and science stu…
Through thousands of errors we reach the truth’—but how? On the epistemic roles of error in scientific practice
The Structure and Function of Experimental Control in the Life Sciences
This article presents a new framework for the analysis of experimental control. The framework highlights different functions for experimental controls in the realization of an experiment: experimental controls that serve as tests and experimental controls that serve as probes. The approach to experimental control proposed here can illuminate the constitutive role of controls in knowledge production, and it sheds new light on the notion of explora…
What Does History Matter to Philosophy of Science? The Concept of Replication and the Methodology of Experiments
Scientists and philosophers generally agree that the replication of experiments is a key ingredient of good and successful scientific practice. "One-offs" are not significant; experiments must be replicable to be considered valid and important. But the term "replication" has been used in a number of ways, and it is therefore quite difficult to appraise the meaning and significance of replications. I consider how history may help - and has helped …
The ‘philosophical grasp of the appearances’ and experimental microscopy
Trying Again and Again
This essay deals with a conspicuous feature of early modern experimental reports: references to multiple repetitions. I examine an episode from the history of research on venomous snakes, the dispute between Francesco Redi and Moyse Charas about the cause of death from viper bites. I identify different kinds of repetitions that are described and specify the various different roles that are attributed to repetitions in experimental reports. I argu…
The Task of Explaining Sight - Helmholtz's Writings on Vision as a Test Case for Models of Science Popularization
ArgumentStudies of Helmholtz's popular lectures on science have concentrated on reconstructing his vision of the scientific enterprise, of its nature, its benefits, and its "civilizing power." This paper offers a different perspective by focusing on Helmholtz's attempts to expose his own scientific work to a wider public. Drawing on recent discussions about how to study science popularization, it analyzes how he made his work on sensory physiolog…
Locating Rods and Cones
The Argument This paper is concerned with the diversity of microscopic research in nineteenth-century life sciences. It examines how two researchers, Ernst Wilhelm Brücke and Heinrich Müller, investigated the structure and function of the retina. They did so in significantly different ways, thereby developing quite different accounts of this organ and its role in the process of vision. Both investigators were carrying out microscopic investigatio…
Membranes
The Task of Explaining Sight - Helmholtz's Writings on Vision as a Test Case for Models of Science Popularization
ArgumentStudies of Helmholtz's popular lectures on science have concentrated on reconstructing his vision of the scientific enterprise, of its nature, its benefits, and its "civilizing power." This paper offers a different perspective by focusing on Helmholtz's attempts to expose his own scientific work to a wider public. Drawing on recent discussions about how to study science popularization, it analyzes how he made his work on sensory physiolog…
The ‘philosophical grasp of the appearances’ and experimental microscopy
Through thousands of errors we reach the truth’—but how? On the epistemic roles of error in scientific practice
Misperception, illusion and epistemological optimism
This article compares investigations of the process of vision that were made in early nineteenth-century Britain and the German lands. It is argued that vision studies differed significantly east and west of the North Sea. Most of the German investigators had a medical background and many of them had a firm grasp of contemporary philosophy. In contrast, the British studies on vision emerged from the context of optics. This difference manifested i…
Doing Science, Writing Science
This article identifies a fundamental distinction in scientific practice: the mismatch between what scientists do and what they state they did when they communicate their findings in their publications. The insight that such a mismatch exists is not new. It was already implied in Hans Reichenbach's distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification, and it is taken for granted across the board in philosophy of science and science stu…
Test Objects for Microscopes
Trying Again and Again
This essay deals with a conspicuous feature of early modern experimental reports: references to multiple repetitions. I examine an episode from the history of research on venomous snakes, the dispute between Francesco Redi and Moyse Charas about the cause of death from viper bites. I identify different kinds of repetitions that are described and specify the various different roles that are attributed to repetitions in experimental reports. I argu…
What Does History Matter to Philosophy of Science? The Concept of Replication and the Methodology of Experiments
Scientists and philosophers generally agree that the replication of experiments is a key ingredient of good and successful scientific practice. "One-offs" are not significant; experiments must be replicable to be considered valid and important. But the term "replication" has been used in a number of ways, and it is therefore quite difficult to appraise the meaning and significance of replications. I consider how history may help - and has helped …
Robustness, solidity, and multiple determinations
Vom Nutzen der Historie für die Wissenschaftsphilosophie
Of the Merits of History for Philosophy of Science. This essay is inspired by some of the contributions to the two special issues “History of Science and Philosophy of Science” of the journal Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte . I consider possible roles of historical study for philosophy of science. The first part of the essay discusses contributions to the Anglo‐American debate about history and philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s. I…
Exploratory experimentation” as a probe into the relation between historiography and philosophy of science
Explication Work for Science and Philosophy
This article disentangles the various assumptions and expectations tied to case studies, to testing philosophy through cases, and to historical adequacy. Several notions of historical adequacy are distinguished: 1) adequacy to the standards of professional history of science, 2) historical accuracy, i.e. capturing the historical record, 3) relevance of historical episodes to the epistemic interests of philosophers of science, and 4) withstanding …
The Structure and Function of Experimental Control in the Life Sciences
This article presents a new framework for the analysis of experimental control. The framework highlights different functions for experimental controls in the realization of an experiment: experimental controls that serve as tests and experimental controls that serve as probes. The approach to experimental control proposed here can illuminate the constitutive role of controls in knowledge production, and it sheds new light on the notion of explora…
Mess in Science and Wicked Problems
This paper discusses the claim that science is “messy.” Part I argues first, that a good portion of today’s discussions about messy science is just a portrayal of familiar features of science in new terms. In the paper, I refer to this as “messy science talk.” Second, Part I draws out rhetorical functions of messy science talk, namely the denigration of science in the popular media and the celebration of the maverick. Part II identifies one way i…
Methodological ideas in past experimental inquiry
This paper discusses two methodological notions, the concepts Gegenprobe (countercheck) and Gegenversuch (counter-trial), which were widely applied, discussed, relied upon, and defended in German-language writings about empirical inquiry. In the decades around 1800, they were common in physiology; medicine; agriculture; chemistry; various technologies, such as printing, metallurgy, and mining; accounting; and legal and political argumentation. Th…
Parasites, Pepsin, Pus, and Postulates
The German anatomist and pathologist Jakob Henle's essay on miasma and miasmatic-contagious diseases is considered a medical classic. Nevertheless, it has rarely been analyzed in depth. If at all, it has been read as foreshadowing Robert Koch's "postulates," the famous set of criteria for identifying pathogens. This reading has created misunderstandings of Henle's own work on miasma and miasmatic-contagious diseases and impeded our understanding …
Thinking about scientific thinking
Traditions of Analysis and Synthesis
Epistemology (16 obras) · Philosophy (16 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Philosophy and History of Science (11 obras) · Philosophy (10 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Philosophy of science (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · History (5 obras)