Kirsten Walsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874305 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsten Walsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Walsh |
| SIGNATURE | WALSH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5763-1215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aesthetics and Agency in Experiments
We place agency front-and-centre in the aesthetics of science via an analysis of experimental design and performance. This first involves developing an account of scientific agency relevant to experiment. We do this via an analogy between experiments and games (as understood by Suits and Nguyen): both involve artificial practical environments designed to enable participants to exercise particular forms of agency. Second, we consider how this acco…
Situated Cognition in Early Modern Experimentation
The early moderns surely didn't defend an embodied, extended, embedded, or enacted conception of the mind, but we aim to show that this perspective can make sense of some of their practices; in particular, the epistemology of early modern experimentation.Focusing on Newton's early optical work, we argue that the epistemic warrant he claims for his experimental results turns crucially on how the experimenter is situated towards gaining particular …
Turning Anomalies into Puzzles
Newton
Newton’s earliest publications contained scandalous epistemological claims: not only did he aim for certainty; he also claimed success. Some commentators argue that Newton ultimately gave up claims of certainty in favor of a high degree of probability. I argue that no such shift occurred. I examine the evidence of a probabilistic shift: a passage from query 23/31 of the Opticks and rule 4 of the Principia . Neither passage supports a probabilisti…
Newton
Newton’s earliest publications contained scandalous epistemological claims: not only did he aim for certainty; he also claimed success. Some commentators argue that Newton ultimately gave up claims of certainty in favor of a high degree of probability. I argue that no such shift occurred. I examine the evidence of a probabilistic shift: a passage from query 23/31 of the Opticks and rule 4 of the Principia . Neither passage supports a probabilisti…
Newton
Newton’s earliest publications contained scandalous epistemological claims: not only did he aim for certainty; he also claimed success. Some commentators argue that Newton ultimately gave up claims of certainty in favor of a high degree of probability. I argue that no such shift occurred. I examine the evidence of a probabilistic shift: a passage from query 23/31 of the Opticks and rule 4 of the Principia . Neither passage supports a probabilisti…
Situated Cognition in Early Modern Experimentation
The early moderns surely didn't defend an embodied, extended, embedded, or enacted conception of the mind, but we aim to show that this perspective can make sense of some of their practices; in particular, the epistemology of early modern experimentation.Focusing on Newton's early optical work, we argue that the epistemic warrant he claims for his experimental results turns crucially on how the experimenter is situated towards gaining particular …
Turning Anomalies into Puzzles
Aesthetics and Agency in Experiments
We place agency front-and-centre in the aesthetics of science via an analysis of experimental design and performance. This first involves developing an account of scientific agency relevant to experiment. We do this via an analogy between experiments and games (as understood by Suits and Nguyen): both involve artificial practical environments designed to enable participants to exercise particular forms of agency. Second, we consider how this acco…
Epistemology (2 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (2 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (1 work) · Agency (philosophy) (1 work) · Analogy (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Business (1 work)