Information and Experimental Knowledge - Couverture souple

Mattingly, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 022680481X ISBN 13 : 9780226804811

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2021

Synopsis

An ambitious new model of experimentation that will reorient our understanding of the key features of experimental practice.

What is experimental knowledge, and how do we get it? While there is general agreement that experiment is a crucial source of scientific knowledge, how experiment generates that knowledge is far more contentious. In this book, philosopher of science James Mattingly explains how experiments function. Specifically, he discusses what it is about experimental practice that transforms observations of what may be very localized, particular, isolated systems into what may be global, general, integrated empirical knowledge. Mattingly argues that the purpose of experimentation is the same as the purpose of any other knowledge-generating enterprise-to change the state of information of the knower. This trivial-seeming point has a non-trivial consequence: to understand a knowledge-generating enterprise, we should follow the flow of information. Therefore, the account of experimental knowledge Mattingly provides is based on understanding how information flows in experiments: what facilitates that flow, what hinders it, and what characteristics allow it to flow from system to system, into the heads of researchers, and finally into our store of scientific knowledge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James Mattingly is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University. His primary research interests are conceptual change in the sciences, the epistemology of science, and the nature of scientific theories. His work has been published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Physical Review, and Philosophy of Science, among others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022680481X
• ISBN 13: 9780226804811
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
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• Personne responsable: non disponible