The play of nature : experimentation as performance /

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Author / Creator:	Crease, Robert P.
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1993.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 206 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Indiana series in the philosophy of technology Indiana series in the philosophy of technology.
Subject:	Science -- Philosophy. Science -- Experiments -- Philosophy. Performance. Performance. Science -- Experiments -- Philosophy. Science -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11105023

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ISBN:	0585105782 9780585105789 0253314747 9780253314741
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	This novel approach to philosophy of science asserts that experimentation is at the center of science and explains the experimental process through an analogy with theatrical performance. Attacking positivist and Kantian varieties of philosophy of science in which experimentation takes a backseat to theory, Robert R. Crease develops his conception of the centrality of experimentation via an argumentative analogy with theatrical performances. To establish his program, Crease draws on three nonpositivist strands of recent philosophy: Husserl's phenomenology to clarify the notion of invariance, Dewey's pragmatism to make needed revisions in our idea of productive inquiry, and Heidegger's hermeneutics to formulate a concept of interpretation appropriate to the cultural and historical "lifeworld" in which members of a scientific community think and act.
Other form:	Print version: Crease, Robert P. Play of nature. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1993 0253314747

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Don Ihde
Introduction: The Problem of Experimentation. The Neglect of Experiment. Value of the Inquiry for Science. Value of the Inquiry for Philosophy
I. The Mythic Account of Experimentation. The Mythic Account. Philosophers and Experimentation. Philosophical Tools Needed
II. Philosophers and Productive Inquiry. John Dewey and Inquiry. Edmund Husserl and Invariance. Martin Heidegger and Interpretation
III. Experimentation as a Performing Art: The Theatrical Analogy. Analogy. Perception and Scientific Phenomena. Primacy of the Phenomenon. The Analogy between Experimentation and Performance
IV. Performance: Presentation. Laboratories. The Technology and Artistry of Experimentation. Text and Act Hermeneutics
V. Performance: Representation. Theory as Scripting. The Role of Mathematics. Path-Dependency: Classical versus Nonclassical Phenomena
VI. Performance: Recognition. Discovery as Recognition. Aristotle on Recognition. Recognition and the Manipulability of Profiles
VII. Performance and Production: The Relation between Science as Inquiry and Science as Cultural Practice. Production. Science as Inquiry and as Cultural Practice. Implications for Narratives about Science
Conclusion: The Play of Nature.

The play of nature : experimentation as performance /

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