Theory and Experiment Recent Insights and New Perspectives on Their
This is not "another collection of contributions on a traditional subject." Even more than we dared to expect during the preparatory stages, the papers in this volume prove that our thinking about science has taken a new turn and has reached a new stage.
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SYNTHESE LIBRARY
STUDIES IN EPISTEM OLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Managing Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA,
Florida State University, Tallahassee
Editors: DONALD DAVIDSON, University of California, Berkeley GABRIEL NUCHELMANS, University of Leyden WESLEY C. SALMON, University of Pittsburgh
VOLUME 195
THEORY AND EXPERIMENT Recent Insights and New Perspectives on Their Relation EDITED BY
DIDERIK BATENS Rijksuniversiteit Gent and Vrije Universiteit Brussel
and JEAN PAUL VAN BENDEGEM Bevoegdverklaard Navorser N.F. w.o.
Rijksuniversiteit Gent and Vrije Universiteit Brussel
on behalf of the Joint Commission of the Sixth International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science Diderik Batens (Gent-Brussel) Paolo Galluzzi (Firenze) Roben Halleux (Liege) Erwin N. Hiebert (Harvard) Risto Hilpinen (Turku)
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International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science (6th: 1986: Ghent, Belgium and Brussels, Belgium) Theory and experiment: recent insights and new perspectives on their relation / edited by Diderik Batens and Jean Paul Van Bendegem on behalf of the joint commission of the Sixth International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science. p. cm. - (Synthese library; v. 195) Sponsored by the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, held in Ghent and Brussels, Aug. 25-30, 1986. Includes index. ISBN -13: 978-94-010-7794-1 e-ISBN -13: 978-94-009-2875-6 DOT: 10.1007/978-94-009-2875-6 1. Science-Methodology---Congresses. 2. Science-Experiments---Congresses. 3. Science-History---Congresses. 4. Science-Philosophy---Congresses. I. Batens, Diderik, 1944- . II. Bendegem, Jean Paul Van, 1953-III. International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science. IV. Title. V. Series. 0174.1563 1986 87-28870 502' .8--dc 19 CIP
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PREFACE I. SYSTEMATIC ANALYSES Evandro Agazzi, Do Experiments Depend on Theories or Theories on Experiments? Risto Hilpinen, On Experimental Questions
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II. THE ROLES OF EXPERIMENT: THEORY GENERATION AND THEORY TESTING Thomas Nickles, Reconstructing Science: Discovery and Experiment Erwin Hiebert, The Ro
