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,A “Careful Examination of All Kind of Phenomena”: Methodology and Psychical Research at the End of f its methodological issues, but rather to point at methodological ideas as they emerge from the actors’ strategies and practices. Eventually, psychical research allows to investigate such methodologies all while acknowledging that their framing happens on the backdrop of religious, social and institutional concerns.

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,Controlling Animals: Carl von Heß, Karl von Frisch, and the Study of Color Vision in Fish,oblems of experimental control: in studying sensory abilities, it is impossible to directly determine the content of perception. In this sense, these experimental results are, in principle, difficult to control.

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Introduction: Practices, Strategies, and Methodologies of Experimental Control in Historical Perspeces to stabilize and standardize experimental conditions. The second is the emergence and career of the comparative design in experimentation, understood as a way of generating and securing knowledge of cause-effect relations. The third involves the unfolding, both in philosophy of science and in th

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,Controlling Induction: Practices and Reflections in David Brewster’s Optical Studies,n both conceived and practiced as more or less rigorous and more or less strictly controlled in its various steps. Rigor and control might appear on many levels, such as conceiving and performing the experiment or drawing conclusions from its outcomes. They secure or enhance the reliability of the i

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,A “Careful Examination of All Kind of Phenomena”: Methodology and Psychical Research at the End of teria for data collection and interpretation? In this paper, I explore this question with the help of three historical cases: (1) Michael Faraday’s 1853, experiments on table turning, (2) Robert Hare’s . (1855), and (3) the later attempts at analysing telepathic phenomena statistically, as it was th