| 书目名称 | Experiment and the Making of Meaning | | 副标题 | Human Agency in Scie | | 编辑 | David Gooding | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Science and Philosophy | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | . . . the topic of ‘meaning‘ is the one topic discussed in philosophy in which there is literally nothing but ‘theory‘ - literally nothing that can be labelled or even ridiculed as the ‘common sense view‘. Putnam, ‘The Meaning of Meaning‘ This book explores some truths behind the truism that experimentation is a hallmark of scientific activity. Scientists‘ descriptions of nature result from two sorts of encounter: they interact with each other and with nature. Philosophy of science has, by and large, failed to give an account of either sort of interaction. Philosophers typically imagine that scientists observe, theorize and experiment in order to produce general knowledge of natural laws, knowledge which can be applied to generate new theories and technologies. This view bifurcates the scientist‘s world into an empirical world of pre-articulate experience and know how and another world of talk, thought and argument. Most received philosophies of science focus so exclusively on the literary world of representations that they cannot begin to address the philosophical problems arising from the interaction of these worlds: empirical access as a source of knowledge, meaning and referen | | 出版日期 | Book 1990 | | 关键词 | Interpretation; analogy; experimentation; metaphor; proposition; realism | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0707-2 | | isbn_softcover | 978-0-7923-3253-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-0707-2Series ISSN 0924-4697 | | issn_series | 0924-4697 | | copyright | Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990 |
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