Experimentation in the Sciences: Comparative and Long-Term Historical Research on Experimental Practice

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· Archimedes Book 72 · Springer Nature
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This book takes a novel approach by highlighting comparative and long-term historical perspectives on experimental practice. The juxtaposition of accounts of natural, social, and medical experimentation is very enlightening, especially because the authors put the emphasis on the different kinds of objects of experimentation (physical matter, chemical reagents, social groups, organizations, sick individuals, archeological remains) and demonstrate how much the kinds of objects matter for the practice of experimentation, its methods, tools, and methodologies. Taken together, the chapters raise several fascinating questions for further study: What do these different approaches have in common? Why do we call them “experimentation”? What are the intersections among the fields and their developments? The volume engages philosophical approaches that are not well known to Anglophone readers (Bachelard, Bergson, Bernard, Canguilhem, among others) and brings to attention a wealth of Francophone secondary literature on past and present scientific experimentation. The collection fills a yawning gap in science, science studies, and philosophy of science teaching, making it particularly valuable philosophers and historians of science in all subfields.


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Catherine Allamel-Raffin is Professor at the University of Strasbourg and Co-Director of the Archives Henri Poincaré Laboratory (CNRS, University of Lorraine, University of Strasbourg). Her research focuses on objectivity of scientific images. She has written, co-written or edited a dozen books and some forty articles.
Jean-Luc Gangloff teaches both at a high school and at the University of Strasbourg. He has written, co-written or edited a dozen books and some twenty articles. His research focuses on questions of philosophy of science and on the representation of science in fiction.
Yves Gingras is Professor of history and sociology of science at Université du Québec à Montréal. His research focuses on the transformations of scientific disciplines. He has written, co-written or edited twenty books, and published over one hundred and forty articles.

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