Going amiss in experimental research
Like any goal-oriented procedure, experiment is subject to many kinds of failures. These failures have a variety of features, depending on the particulars of their sources. For the experimenter these pitfalls should be avoided and their effects minimized. For the historian-philosopher of science and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2009. |
| Series: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;
v. 267. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009453143206719 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Mapping “Going Amiss”
- Introduction: Mapping “Going Amiss”
- Error as an Object of Study
- Error: The Long Neglect, the One-Sided View, and a Typology
- Error as Historiographical Challenge: The Infamous Globule Hypothesis
- Learning From Error
- Learning Without Error
- Living Extremely Flat: The Life of an Automaton; John von Neumann’s Conception of Error of (in)Animate Systems
- Concepts and Dead Ends
- Experimental Reorientations
- Concepts from the Bench: Hans Krebs, Kurt Henseleit and the Urea Cycle
- How Experiments Make Concepts Fail: Faraday and Magnetic Curves
- A Pioneer Who Never Got It Right: James Dewar and the Elusive Phenomena of Cold
- Instrumental Artifacts
- Distinguishing Real Results from Instrumental Artifacts: The Case of the Missing Rain
- Going Right and Making It Wrong: The Reception of Fizeau’s Ether-Drift Experiment of 1859
- The Spectrum of ? Decay: Continuous or Discrete? A Variety of Errors in Experimental Investigation
- Surprise and Puzzlement
- The Scent of Filth: Experiments, Waste, and the Set-Up
- In the Thick of Organic Matter.
