Play of Nature Experimentation As Performance

Name: Play of Nature Experimentation As Performance
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ISBN: 9780253314741

ISBN-10: 0253314747

ISBN-13: 9780253314741

Edition: 1993

Authors: Robert P. Crease, Don Ihde

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Book details

List price: $53.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/22/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 220
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Problem of Experimentation


The Neglect of Experiment


Value of the Inquiry for Science


Value of the Inquiry for Philosophy



The Mythic Account of Experimentation


The Mythic Account


Philosophers and Experimentation


Philosophical Tools Needed



Philosophers and Productive Inquiry


John Dewey and Inquiry


Edmund Husserl and Invariance


Martin Heidegger and Interpretation



Experimentation as a Performing Art: The Theatrical Analogy


Analogy


Perception and Scientific Phenomena


Primacy of the Phenomenon


The Analogy between Experimentation and Performance



Performance: Presentation


Laboratories


The Technology and Artistry of Experimentation


Text and Act Hermeneutics



Performance: Representation


Theory as Scripting


The Role of Mathematics


Path-Dependency: Classical versus Nonclassical Phenomena



Performance: Recognition


Discovery as Recognition


Aristotle on Recognition


Recognition and the Manipulability of Profiles



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


Notes


Index