By Evandro Agazzi (auth.), Diderik Batens, Jean Paul Van Bendegem (eds.)
ISBN-10: 9400928750
ISBN-13: 9789400928756
ISBN-10: 9401077940
ISBN-13: 9789401077941
This isn't "another choice of contributions on a conventional subject." much more than we dared to count on through the preparatory phases, the papers during this quantity turn out that our wondering technological know-how has taken a brand new flip and has reached a brand new degree. The revolutionary destruction of the obtained view has been a desirable and fit event. at the present, the interval of destruction is over. A richer and extra equilibrated research of a few difficulties is feasible and is being cru'ried out. during this experience, this ebook comes correct on time. We owe much to the students of the Kuhnian interval. They not just did away with stumbling blocks, yet in different respects instigated a shift in realization that modified heritage and philosophy of technological know-how in a irreversible approach. A c1earcut instance - we borrow it from the paper through Risto Hilpinen - issues the examine of technology as a strategy, Rnd not just for this reason. in addition, they it sounds as if reached numerous lasting effects, e.g., about the large impression of theoretical conceptions on empirical info. except baffling humans for a number of a long time, this perception ideas out an different go back to simple-minded empiricism within the future.
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It is not only high theoretical debates which make experiments crucial. 17 A crucial experiment full stop is (roughly) a two-stage affair. It is an experiment which demonstrates the (non)existence of a crucial phenomenon and thereby decides among contesting theories. ) Both stages may be exceedingly difficult to establish, and either one may occur in the absence bf the other. When light pressure was a crucial phenomenon, no one could demonstrate it. By the time a demonstration became possible, it was no longer crucial (at least in a qualitative sense).
Quoted by Polanyi (1962), p. 69. I adopt the poet's words to my purpose. The comrourrlcation Eliot had in mind was prayer and reflection on the historical meaning of a place. Nonetheless, there is a parallel. Eliot dwells on the intersection of time and eternity. My more prosaic topic is the intersection of history and logic. 2. See Kuhn (1978). On the ultraviolet catastrophe, see Klein (1962, 1970). 3. ) 4. Bayesian confirmation theorists, with their emphasis on the importance of prior probabilities, represent a growing body of opposition to the strict consequentialist view.
Franklin does not discuss the reasons for performing various experiments, but rather the question what makes the experiments (cognitively) significant or important. Nevertheless he describes the experiments in terms of their function, at least in cases (i), (ii), (iv), and (v). , belong to (b2». ) Experiments of type (v) are also instances of (b2), but in this case the relevant primary question is not a question about a theory, but about the trustworthiness of certain experimental results. Questions of this kind are addressed by the investigator to himself (or perhaps they are presented to him by other investigators); thus they must be regarded as primary questions.
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