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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Hon, Giora (Editor ), Schickore, Jutta (Editor ), Steinle, Friedrich (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 267
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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