The play of nature : experimentation as performance /
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Author / Creator: | Crease, Robert P. |
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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. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11105023 |
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.