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The Play of Nature: Experimentation as Performance

by Robert P. Crease

ISBN13: 9780253314741
ISBN10: 0253314747
Condition: Standard
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"Crease's brilliantly exploited theatrical analogy places scientific theorizing back into the wider context of experimental inquiry." --Robert C. Scharff

Crease attacks the "mystical" account of experimentation embraced by the positivist and Kantian varieties of philosophy of science, according to which experimentation takes a backseat to theory.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-202) and index.

About the Author

ROBERT P. CREASE is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and co-author (with Charles Mann) of The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics.

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ISBN:: 9780253314741
Binding:: Hardcover
Publication date:: 12/22/1993
Publisher:: Indiana University Press
Series info:: Science, Technology, and Society
Language:: English
Pages:: 220
Height:: .56IN
Width:: 6.00IN
Thickness:: .63 in.
LCCN:: 93002735
Series:: Science, Technology, and Society
Number of Units:: 1
Series Volume:: no.9
UPC Code:: 2800253314743
Author:: Robert P Crease
Author:: Robert P. Crease
Oth:: Don Ihde
Ed:: Robert Crease
Author:: Crease Robert P
Ed:: Foreword by Don Ihde Robert P Crease
Subject:: Science -- Philosophy.
Subject:: Research -- Methodology.
Subject:: Science
Subject:: Science Reference-General
Subject:: General Philosophy
Subject:: Science General-Reference
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Performance
Subject:: History

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