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Recent philosophy and history of science have seen a surge of interest in the role of concepts in scientific research. Combining philosophical and historical scholarship, the articles in this volume investigate the ways in which scientists form and use concepts, rather than in what the concepts them...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Feest, Uljana (Editor ), Steinle, Friedrich (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2012]
Colección:Berlin studies in knowledge research ; v. 3.
Temas:
Research > Methodology.
Research > Philosophy.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Recherche > Méthodologie.
Recherche > Philosophie.
Théorie de la connaissance.
epistemology.
REFERENCE > Research.
Knowledge, Theory of
Research > Methodology
Research > Philosophy
Forschungsmethode
Leitidee
Naturwissenschaften
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice: Introduction
  • Concept as Vessel and Concept as Use
  • Rethinking Scientific Concepts for Research Contexts: The Case of the Classical Gene
  • The Dynamics of Scientific Concepts: The Relevance of Epistemic Aims and Values
  • Goals and Fates of Concepts: The Case of Magnetic Poles
  • Mathematical Concepts and Investigative Practice
  • Experimentation and the Meaning of Scientific Concepts
  • Exploratory Experiments, Concept Formation, and Theory Construction in Psychology
  • Early Concepts in Investigative Practice-- The Case of the Virus
  • Scientific Concepts in the Engineering Sciences: Epistemic Tools for Creating and Intervening with Phenomena
  • Modeling Practices in Conceptual Innovation: An Ethnographic Study of a Neural Engineering Research Laboratory
  • Conceptual Development in Interdisciplinary Research
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of Names.

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