Scientific practice :
Buchwald, Jed Z.
Scientific practice : theories and stories of doing physics / edited by Jed Z. Buchwald. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1995. - xiii, 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-383) and index.
Introduction / Context and Constraints / Beyond Constraint: The Temporality of Practice and the Historicity of Knowledge / Experimenting in the Natural Sciences: A Philosophical Approach / Scientific Practice: The View from the Tabletop / Following Scientists through Society? Yes, but at Arm's Length! / Why Hertz Was Right about Cathode Rays / Is the Identification of Experimental Error Contextually Dependent? The Case of Kaufmann's Experiment and Its Varied Reception / Scientific Conclusions and Philosophical Arguments: An Inessential Tension / Where Experiments End: Tabletop Trials in Victorian Astronomy / The Sturdy Protestants of Science: Larmor, Trouton, and the Earth's Motion through the Ether / Ian Hacking -- Peter L. Galison -- Andrew Pickering -- Hans Radder -- Brian S. Baigrie -- Yves Gingras -- Jed Z. Buchwald -- Giora Hon -- Margaret Morrison -- Simon Schaffer -- Andrew Warwick -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Conclusion / Jed Z. Buchwald and Sylvan S. Schweber.
0226078892 (cl : acidfree paper) 0226078906 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
94049715
Physics--Experiments--Methodology.
Physics--Experiments--History.
Physics--Philosophy.
Science--Philosophy.
QC33 / .S33 1995
530/.0724
Scientific practice : theories and stories of doing physics / edited by Jed Z. Buchwald. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1995. - xiii, 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-383) and index.
Introduction / Context and Constraints / Beyond Constraint: The Temporality of Practice and the Historicity of Knowledge / Experimenting in the Natural Sciences: A Philosophical Approach / Scientific Practice: The View from the Tabletop / Following Scientists through Society? Yes, but at Arm's Length! / Why Hertz Was Right about Cathode Rays / Is the Identification of Experimental Error Contextually Dependent? The Case of Kaufmann's Experiment and Its Varied Reception / Scientific Conclusions and Philosophical Arguments: An Inessential Tension / Where Experiments End: Tabletop Trials in Victorian Astronomy / The Sturdy Protestants of Science: Larmor, Trouton, and the Earth's Motion through the Ether / Ian Hacking -- Peter L. Galison -- Andrew Pickering -- Hans Radder -- Brian S. Baigrie -- Yves Gingras -- Jed Z. Buchwald -- Giora Hon -- Margaret Morrison -- Simon Schaffer -- Andrew Warwick -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Conclusion / Jed Z. Buchwald and Sylvan S. Schweber.
0226078892 (cl : acidfree paper) 0226078906 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
94049715
Physics--Experiments--Methodology.
Physics--Experiments--History.
Physics--Philosophy.
Science--Philosophy.
QC33 / .S33 1995
530/.0724