The philosophy of scientific experimentation / edited by Hans Radder.

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2003], ©2003.

xii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Toward a more developed philosophy of scientific experimentation / Hans Radder -- The materiality of instruments in a metaphysics for experiments / Rom Harré -- Thing knowledge: outline of a materialist theory of knowledge / Davis Baird -- Physics, experiments, and the concept of nature / Peter Kroes -- Experimentation, causal inference, and instrumental realism / Jim Woodward -- Technology as basis and object of experimental practices / Rainer Lange -- Theory-ladenness and scientific instruments in experimentation / Michael Heidelberger -- Technology and theory in experimental science / Hans Radder -- The idols of experiment: transcending the "etc. list" / Giora Hon -- Models, simulation, and "computer experiments" / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Experiments without material intervention: model experiments, virtual experiments, and virtually experiments / Mary S. Morgan -- Designing instruments and the design of nature / Daniel Rothbart -- Varying the cognitive span: experimentation, visualization, and computation / David Gooding.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-301) and index.