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oapen-20.500.12657-883652024-03-28T14:02:54Z Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things Schickore, Jutta Newman, William R. Control experiment History of experimental practice History of life sciences History of physical sciences History of philosophy of science visions on experimentation thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PN Chemistry::PNF Analytical chemistry thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PB Mathematics::PBX History of mathematics This open access book provides a historical treatment of scientific control in experimentation in the longue durée. The introduction distinguishes four related strands in the history of experimental control: the development of practices to stabilize experimental conditions; the career of the comparative design; the unfolding of methodological discussions about control practices and designs; and the history of the term “control”. Each chapter brings these distinctions to bear on specific historical episodes. The focus is on experiments with complex, elusive phenomena such as perception and learning, irregular movements, and unobservable elements. Such experiments bring control issues to the fore because they are difficult to design and stabilize and often controversial. Together, the chapters show that the local context shapes what exactly is controlled, how control can be accomplished, and how controls are justified. They also show that control strategies and methodological ideas often remain stable for a long time and change only gradually. This book, as well as the volume on analysis and synthesis in experimentation by the same editors, contains contributions by an array of experts from multiple disciplines, making it suitable for historians and philosophers of science and students alike. 2024-03-13T11:11:19Z 2024-03-13T11:11:19Z 2024 book ONIX_20240313_9783031529542_51 9783031529542 9783031529535 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88365 eng Archimedes application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-52954-2.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-52954-2 Springer Nature Springer Nature Switzerland 10.1007/978-3-031-52954-2 10.1007/978-3-031-52954-2 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 f143751d-3e90-45dd-a9bb-b672c87e058c 9783031529542 9783031529535 Springer Nature Switzerland 71 307 Cham [...] Indiana University IU open access
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This open access book provides a historical treatment of scientific control in experimentation in the longue durée. The introduction distinguishes four related strands in the history of experimental control: the development of practices to stabilize experimental conditions; the career of the comparative design; the unfolding of methodological discussions about control practices and designs; and the history of the term “control”. Each chapter brings these distinctions to bear on specific historical episodes. The focus is on experiments with complex, elusive phenomena such as perception and learning, irregular movements, and unobservable elements. Such experiments bring control issues to the fore because they are difficult to design and stabilize and often controversial. Together, the chapters show that the local context shapes what exactly is controlled, how control can be accomplished, and how controls are justified. They also show that control strategies and methodological ideas often remain stable for a long time and change only gradually. This book, as well as the volume on analysis and synthesis in experimentation by the same editors, contains contributions by an array of experts from multiple disciplines, making it suitable for historians and philosophers of science and students alike.
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