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1 online resource |
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Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 267 |
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Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 267.
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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 |
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history |
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filosofie |
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philosophy |
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wetenschapsfilosofie |
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philosophy of science |
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wetenschap |
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science |
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Philosophy (General) |
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Filosofie (algemeen) |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Errors, Scientific.
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Errors, Scientific.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Errors, Scientific
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Schickore, Jutta.
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Steinle, Friedrich.
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ISBN |
9781402088933 |
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1402088930 |
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