Error and Uncertainty in Scientific Practice (History and Philosophy of Technoscience)

Boumans, Marcel (EDT)/ Hon, Giora (EDT)/ Petersen, Arthur (EDT)

Routledge（2016/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138662278
• DDC分類 501

Full Description

Assessment of error and uncertainty is a vital component of both natural and social science. This edited volume presents case studies of research practices across a wide spectrum of scientific fields. It compares methodologies and presents the ingredients needed for an overarching framework applicable to all.

Contents

Introduction, Marcel Boumans, Giora Hon; Chapter 1 The Lack of a Satisfactory Conceptualization of the Notion of Error in the Historiography of Science: Two Main Approaches and Their Shortcomings, Bart Karstens; Chapter 2 Experimental Knowledge in the Face of Theoretical Error, Kent W. Staley; Chapter 3 Learning from Error: How Experiment Gets a Life (Of Its Own), Deborah G. Mayo; Chapter 4 Modelling Measurement: Error and Uncertainty, Luca Mari, Alessandro Giordani; Chapter 5 Handling Uncertainty in Environmental Models at the Science-Policy-Society Interfaces, M. Bruce Beck; Chapter 6 Variations on Reliability: Connecting Climate Predictions to Climate Policy, Leonard A. Smith, Arthur C. Petersen; Chapter 7 Order and Indeterminism: An Info-Gap Perspective, Yakov Ben-Haim; Chapter 8 Learning from Data: The Role of Error in Statistical Modelling and Inference, Aris Spanos;