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Tampering with Nature - Empirical Methodology & Experimental Onto-Epistemology (Hardcover)
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Tampering with Nature - Empirical Methodology & Experimental Onto-Epistemology (Hardcover)
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After the historiographic revolution in science studies of the
1960's, philosophers began to envision science as a product of
historical and sociological forces and not as the result of the
"scientific method." While the importance of experimentation is
recognised in recent science studies, the full significance for its
role in scientific practice generally remains overlooked.
Therefore, attempts to reconstruct narratives of scientific
practice are often incomplete. In this book, the author proposes
onto-epistemological roles for experimentation in terms of an
empirical methodology, for analysing experiments in scientific
practice. These case studies provide a tangible framework for
engaging in a series of philosophical reflections on the
onto-epistemological roles of experimentation for an empirical
methodology. From the analysis of the reconstruction of this
historical narrative, the author identifies several characteristics
of experimentation -- controllability, reproducibility, plasticity,
and fecundity -- that are important for understanding how
scientific practice leads to the discovery of novel entities within
the natural world and ultimately to the growth of scientific
knowledge and scientific progress. In addition, the notion of
horizon for scientific practice, representing particularly the
experimental and theoretical limits within which scientists ply
their trade, is introduced to facilitate the analysis of scientific
discovery. And the notion of progressive horizon, in which the
practice of scientists intersects dynamically with "the way nature
is", is also introduced to analyse scientific progress. That
mediation represents a "tampering" with the natural world, in which
the measure of a natural phenomenon is taken through experimental
activity.
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