Scientific concepts and investigative practice / edited by Feest Uljana ; Steinle Friedrich
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TextLanguage: Series: Berlin studies in knowledge research ; no. 3Publication details: De Gruyter, Boston : 2012.Description: 301 p. : ill. ; 23.5 cmISBN: - 9783110253603 (hbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice: Introduction / Friedrich Steinle -- Concept as Vessel and Concept as Use / Vasso Kindi -- Rethinking Scientific Concepts for Research Contexts: The Case of the Classical Gene / Miles MacLeod -- The Dynamics of Scientific Concepts: The Relevance of Epistemic Aims and Values / Ingo Brigandt -- Goals and Fates of Concepts: The Case of Magnetic Poles / Friedrich Steinle -- Mathematical Concepts and Investigative Practice / Dirk Schlimm -- Experimentation and the Meaning of Scientific Concepts / Theodore Arabatzis -- Exploratory' Experiments, Concept Formation, and Theory Construction in Psychology / Uljana Feest -- Early Concepts in Investigative Practice -- The Case of the Virus / Corinne L. Bloch -- Scientific Concepts in the Engineering Sciences: Epistemic Tools for Creating and Intervening with Phenomena / Mieke Boon -- Modeling Practices in Conceptual Innovation: An Ethnographic Study of a Neural Engineering Research Laboratory / Nancy J. Nersessian -- Conceptual Development in Interdisciplinary Research / Hanne Andersen -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Recent philosophy and history of science have seen a surge of interest in the role of concepts in scientific research. Combining philosophical and historical scholarship, the articles in this volume investigate the ways in which scientists form and use concepts, rather than in what the concepts themselves represent. The fields treated range from mathematics to virology and genetics, from nuclear physics to psychology, from technology to present-day neural engineering.
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