Going Amiss In Experimental Research
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.
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BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editors ROBERT S. COHEN, Boston University ¨ JURGEN RENN, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science KOSTAS GAVROGLU, University of Athens
Editorial Advisory Board
THOMAS F. GLICK, Boston University ¨ ADOLF GRUNBAUM, University of Pittsburgh SYLVAN S. SCHWEBER, Brandeis University JOHN J. STACHEL, Boston University MARX W. WARTOFSKY†, (Editor 1960–1997)
VOLUME 267
GOING AMISS IN EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
by GIORA HON University of Haifa, Israel JUTTA SCHICKORE Indiana University, USA FRIEDRICH STEINLE Wuppertal University, Germany
Editors Giora Hon University of Haifa Department of Philosophy 31905 Haifa Israel [email protected]
Jutta Schickore Indiana University Department of History and Philosophy of Science Bloomington, IN 47405 USA [email protected]
Friedrich Steinle University of Wuppertal Fachbereich A, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte Gaussstr. 20 42119 Wuppertal Germany [email protected]
ISBN: 978-1-4020-8892-6
e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-8893-3
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-8893-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008937805 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.
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Acknowledgments
Most of the essays comprising this volume grew out of presentations at the conference, Going Wrong and Making it Right: Error as a Crucial Feature of Concept Adjustments in Experimental Contexts, which we, the editors of this volume, organized in Aegina, Greece, in Spring 2003. The three of us had earlier met at the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, where we had ample opportunity to discuss our common interest in concept formation and the pivotal role of error in experimental practice. We are most grateful to Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, one of the directors of the MPI, for constant encouragement and generous support of our research projects. Our conference proposal received the financial backing of the Dibner Institute whose then acting director, George Smith, responded enthusiastically to our suggestion to have an international meeting on the theme of going amiss. The conference had been originally planned to take place in Israel, but circumstances were such that it had to be moved to a different location. The meeting proved successful due in large measure to the invaluable support of Kostas Gavroglu, who graciously offered to act as the local organizer for the event. We are most grateful to him for hosting our conference as well as to Dina Dalouka for her assistance. We thank the conference participants for lively and fruitful discussions, and we are particularly grateful to
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