Information and Experimental Knowledge. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James Mattingly.
• Authors: Mattingly, James
• Contents: Introduction Part I. Aspects of Experimentation 1. Introduction to Part I 2. Calibration 3. Intervention's Role 4. Intervention's Goods 5. Replication 6. The Received View of Replication 7. Hertz and Cathode Rays 8. Replication as Contested 9. Misleading Replication 10. What Replication Is, Finally 11. Replication without New Evidence 12. The Replication 'Crisis': A Calibration Problem 13. Conclusion to Part I Part II. Information and Experimentation 14. Introduction to Part II 15. The Basic Features of Experiment 16. Information 17. Knowledge and the Flow of Information 18. The Logic of Experimental Practice 19. Moving On Part III. Ways of Experimenting 20. Introduction to Part III 21. Laboratory and Natural Experimentation 22. Analogical Experimenting 23. Economic Analogues 24. Cosmological Analogues 25. Nonhuman Animal Analogues 26. Analogical Experimentation Is Generic 27. Simulation Experimenting 28. Background for Thought Experiments 29. Thought Experimental Knowledge 30. Conclusion to Part III, and the Book Acknowledgments Bibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Copyright Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (400 pages)
• Subjects: Philosophy -- General; Philosophy -- Epistemology; Science -- Philosophy & Social Aspects; Science -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226804781
• Related ISBNs: 9780226804644; 9780226804811
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