Practice, context, and the dialogue between theory and experiment
By: edited by Timothy Lenoir (guest editor) and Yehuda Elkana
Series: Science in context -- v.2, no.1 (spring 1988)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Science; Methodology; Philosophy; Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Practice, reason, context : the dialogue between theory and experiment / Timothy Lenoir; title: Robert Boyle and mathematics : reality, representation, and experimental practice / Steven Shapin; title: Model builders and instrument makers / Thomas P. Hughes; title: Mediating machines / M. Norton Wise; title: Astronomers mark time : discipline and the personal equation / Simon Schaffer; title: Experimental accuracy, operationalism, and the limits of knowledge - 1925 to 1935 / Mara Beller; title: Models of science : fictions or idealizations? / Yemima Ben-Menahem; title: Experiment as a second-order concept / Yehuda Elkana; title: History, philosophy, and the central metaphor; title: Peter Galison.