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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.