Practice, Reason, Context
The Dialogue Between Theory and Experiment
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 4516382 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Timothy Lenoir (Stanford University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1988 |
| Volumen | 2 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 3-22 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Science in Context (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0269889700000478 |
| OpenAlex | W2983454491 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 28 |
| Referencias citadas | 12 |
Experiment, instrumentation, and procedures of measurement, the body of practices and technologies forming the technical culture of science, have received at most a cameo appearance in most histories. For the history of science is almost always written as the history of theory. Of course, the interpretation of science as dominated by theory was the main pillar of the critique, launched by Kuhn, Quine, Hanson, Feyerabend, and others, of the positivist and logical empiricist traditions in the philosophy of science. Against Carnap, Hempel, Nagel, and Popper, who accorded observation reports an independent status either as a source of inductive support or as a basis for the falsification of scientific theories, Hanson and Kuhn emphasized the theory-ladenness of observation. They made this central point - that all observation is shaped by reference to theory - the cornerstone of a full-blown philosophy of science by buttressing it with two additional lines of argument: First, theories are always underdetermined by the data, several theories being compatible with the same set of data. Hence, choice between theories is never a matter of empirical support, but always turns around conceptual issues. Second, statements derived from theory never confront nature alone; they are always clothed in a web of interrelated beliefs. Thus, theories, their associated observation languages, and the entire technical culture they support must be accepted or rejected as wholes
Empiricism · Epistemology · History of science · Logical positivism · Philosophy of science · Positivism · Quine · Scientific theory · Chemistry · Computer Science · History and Philosophy of Science · History of Science and Medicine · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Science and Climate Studies
Perception, Living Matter, Cognitive Systems, Immune Networks
From tools to theories
Terminal Men
Adaptive Thinking
Tools=Theories=Data? On Some Circular Dynamics in Cognitive Science
The roles of integration in molecular systems biology
The Scientific Discovery of ‘Natural Capital’
Roles of Instruments in Psychological Research
Imaging a black hole shadow through the Event Horizon Telescope
Tangled Loops
The manufacture of the positron
Striking Gold in the 1990s
The experimenters' regress
Blurred boundaries
The empiric experience and the practice of autonomy
Instruments and rules
Experiment, difference, and writing
Born's probabilistic interpretation
Bringing the human actors back on stage
Turbulent Reactions
The Social Practice of Independent Inventing
Mediating Machines
The Factory as Laboratory
Historicizing Mind Science
From the Science of Accounts to the Financial Accountability of Science
Making Knowledge
Abraham Trembley's Strategy of Generosity and the Scope of Celebrity in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Of Foams and Formalisms
| Obras citantes distintas | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,74 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1988 - 2024 (37) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 25 |