Davis Baird
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Davis Baird |
| GIVEN NAMES | Davis |
| FAMILY NAME | Baird |
| SIGNATURE | BAIRD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thing knowledge
Thing Knowledge - Function and Truth
Arnold O. Beckman
Heinrich Hertz
Heinrich Hertz
This first major collection of essays devoted to Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894) brings together an international group of physicists, philosophers, and historians of science. It includes investigations of Hertz's background, his theoretical and experimental contributions, his philosophy of science, and his influence on science and philosophy in the twentieth century. Its central focus is Hertz's Principles of Mechanics of 1894 which develops the meth…
Facts-Well-Put
In this paper we elucidate a particular type of instrument. Striking-phenomenon instruments assume their striking profile against the shifting backdrop of theoretical uncertainties. While technologically stable, the phenomena produced by these instruments are linguistically fuzzy, subject to a variety of conceptual representations. But in virtue of their technological stability alone, they can provide a foundation for further technological as wel…
Instrumental Realism
The Empire of Chance
Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves
Journal Article Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves: An Informal History of Pouring Oil on Water, with reflections on the ups and downs of scientific life in general. By Charles Tanford. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1989. x + 227 pp. $33.50.) Get access Davis Baird Davis Baird University of South Carolina, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 199…
Scientific Instruments, Scientific Progress and the Cyclotron
Exploratory Factor Analysis, Instruments and the Logic of Discovery
Lehrer/Wagner consensual probabilities do not adequately summarize the available information
The Fisher/Pearson Chi-Squared Controversy
What? Where? When? Why
Scientific Instruments, Scientific Progress and the Cyclotron
Exploratory Factor Analysis, Instruments and the Logic of Discovery
Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves
Journal Article Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves: An Informal History of Pouring Oil on Water, with reflections on the ups and downs of scientific life in general. By Charles Tanford. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1989. x + 227 pp. $33.50.) Get access Davis Baird Davis Baird University of South Carolina, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 199…
Lehrer/Wagner consensual probabilities do not adequately summarize the available information
The Fisher/Pearson Chi-Squared Controversy
What? Where? When? Why
Lehrer/Wagner consensual probabilities do not adequately summarize the available information
Exploratory Factor Analysis, Instruments and the Logic of Discovery
Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves
Journal Article Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves: An Informal History of Pouring Oil on Water, with reflections on the ups and downs of scientific life in general. By Charles Tanford. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1989. x + 227 pp. $33.50.) Get access Davis Baird Davis Baird University of South Carolina, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 199…
Scientific Instruments, Scientific Progress and the Cyclotron
The Empire of Chance
Instrumental Realism
Facts-Well-Put
In this paper we elucidate a particular type of instrument. Striking-phenomenon instruments assume their striking profile against the shifting backdrop of theoretical uncertainties. While technologically stable, the phenomena produced by these instruments are linguistically fuzzy, subject to a variety of conceptual representations. But in virtue of their technological stability alone, they can provide a foundation for further technological as wel…
Heinrich Hertz
Heinrich Hertz
This first major collection of essays devoted to Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894) brings together an international group of physicists, philosophers, and historians of science. It includes investigations of Hertz's background, his theoretical and experimental contributions, his philosophy of science, and his influence on science and philosophy in the twentieth century. Its central focus is Hertz's Principles of Mechanics of 1894 which develops the meth…
Arnold O. Beckman
Thing Knowledge - Function and Truth
Thing knowledge
Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (7 works) · Library science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy of science (4 works) · History (3 works) · History and Philosophy of Science (3 works) · Political science (3 works)