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 the science educator, on the other hand, they are instructive starting points for reflecting on science in general and scientific method and practice in particular. Often more is learned from failure than from confirmation and successful application. The identification of error, its source, its...
Like any goal-oriented procedure, experiment is subject to many kinds of failures. These failures have a variety of features, depending on the part...
The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has left a turbulent wake in the philosophy of science. This book recognizes the need to re-open the debate about the nature, development, and significance of the context distinction, about its merits and flaws. The discussion clears the ground for the productive and fruitful integration of these new developments into philosophy of science.
The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has left a turbulent wake in the philosophy of science. This book recognizes th...
The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has left a turbulent wake in the philosophy of science. This book recognizes the need to re-open the debate about the nature, development, and significance of the context distinction, about its merits and flaws. The discussion clears the ground for the productive and fruitful integration of these new developments into philosophy of science.
The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has left a turbulent wake in the philosophy of science. This book recognizes th...
Recent philosophy and history of science has seen a surge of interest in the role of concepts in scientific research. Scholars working in this new field focus on scientific concepts, rather than theories, as units of analysis and on the ways in which concepts are formed and used rather than on what they represent. They analyze what has traditionally been called the context of discovery, rather than (or in addition to) the context of justification. And they examine the dynamics of research rather than the status of the finished research results.
This volume provides detailed case...
Recent philosophy and history of science has seen a surge of interest in the role of concepts in scientific research. Scholars working in this new ...
The nineteenth century was a formative period for electromagnetism and electrodynamics. Hans Christian Orsted's groundbreaking discovery of the interaction between electricity and magnetism in 1820 inspired a wave of research, led to the science of electrodynamics, and resulted in the development of electromagnetic theory. Remarkably, in response, Andre-Marie Ampere and Michael Faraday developed two incompatible, competing theories. Although their approaches and conceptual frameworks were fundamentally different, together their work launched a technological revolution--laying the foundation...
The nineteenth century was a formative period for electromagnetism and electrodynamics. Hans Christian Orsted's groundbreaking discovery of the intera...
Schon bald nach dem Erscheinen von Lavoisiers HauptwerkTraité élémentaire de chimieim Jahre 1789 sprach man von einerChemischen Revolution, und diese Einschätzung bleibt auch heute noch gültig. Lavoisiers Erklärung des Verbrennungsvorgangs und der Rolle des Sauerstoffs auch bei anderen chemischen Vorgängen wie auch seine quantitative Bilanzmethode und seine systematische chemische Nomenklatur haben die seinerzeitige Chemie revolutioniert und die weitere Entwicklung dieser Wissenschaft geprägt. Eine deutsche Übersetzung erschien 1792. Jan Frercks hat aus der 2.Auflage von 1803 die...
Schon bald nach dem Erscheinen von Lavoisiers HauptwerkTraité élémentaire de chimieim Jahre 1789 sprach man von einerChemischen Revolution, und die...
