The Play of Nature: Experimentation as Performance

Author:   Robert P. Crease ,  Don Ihde ,  Robert Crease
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253314741


Pages:   220
Publication Date:   22 December 1993
Format:   Hardback
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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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Author:   Robert P. Crease ,  Don Ihde ,  Robert Crease
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780253314741


ISBN 10:   0253314747
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   22 December 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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's brilliantly exploited theatrical analogy places scientific theorizing back into the wider context of experimental inquiry. - Robert C. Scharff


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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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