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The play of nature : experimentation as performance /

This novel approach to philosophy of science asserts that experimentation is at the center of science and explains the experimental process through an analogy with theatrical performance. Attacking positivist and Kantian varieties of philosophy of science in which experimentation takes a backseat to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crease, Robert P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1993.
Colección:Indiana series in the philosophy of technology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Don Ihde
  • Introduction: The Problem of Experimentation. The Neglect of Experiment. Value of the Inquiry for Science. Value of the Inquiry for Philosophy
  • I. The Mythic Account of Experimentation. The Mythic Account. Philosophers and Experimentation. Philosophical Tools Needed
  • II. Philosophers and Productive Inquiry. John Dewey and Inquiry. Edmund Husserl and Invariance. Martin Heidegger and Interpretation
  • III. Experimentation as a Performing Art: The Theatrical Analogy. Analogy. Perception and Scientific Phenomena. Primacy of the Phenomenon. The Analogy between Experimentation and Performance
  • IV. Performance: Presentation. Laboratories. The Technology and Artistry of Experimentation. Text and Act Hermeneutics
  • V. Performance: Representation. Theory as Scripting. The Role of Mathematics. Path-Dependency: Classical versus Nonclassical Phenomena
  • VI. Performance: Recognition. Discovery as Recognition. Aristotle on Recognition. Recognition and the Manipulability of Profiles
  • VII. Performance and Production: The Relation between Science as Inquiry and Science as Cultural Practice. Production. Science as Inquiry and as Cultural Practice. Implications for Narratives about Science
  • Conclusion: The Play of Nature.