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Author Hon, Giora.

Title Going amiss in experimental research / by Giora Hon, Jutta Schickore, Friedrich Steinle
Published New York : Springer, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource
Series Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 267
Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 267.
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
Summary Examines errors and failures in scientific experiments in order to shed light on science in general, the scientific method, and the way knowledge is pursued and generated
Analysis geschiedenis
history
filosofie
philosophy
wetenschapsfilosofie
philosophy of science
wetenschap
science
Philosophy (General)
Filosofie (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Errors, Scientific.
Errors, Scientific.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Errors, Scientific
Form Electronic book
Author Schickore, Jutta.
Steinle, Friedrich.
ISBN 9781402088933
1402088930