Going Amiss In Experimental Research

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hon, Giora (Editor), Schickore, Jutta (Editor), Steinle, Friedrich (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Boston Studies In The Philosophy Of Science ; 267
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Science.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Science.; Science, general.

Like any goal-oriented procedure, experiment is subject to many kinds of failures. These failures have a variety of features, depending on the particulars of their sources. For the experimenter these pitfalls should be avoided and their effects minimized. For the historian-philosopher of science and...