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Nowhere are the deficiencies of contemporary philosophy of science as evident as in its treatment of experimentation, which is viewed as an automatic, unambiguous process. Sections 15–18 of Heidegger’s Being and Time provide some important tools for handling this issue, but are inadequate because they erroneously regard scientific entities as appearing in experimentation as thematized, present-at-hand objects. The possibility of a non-Galilean science is raised, however, by viewing experimentation as a kind of performance.
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Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. N. K. Smith (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1965), pp. 20–1 (B xiii-xiv).
Morris R. Cohen, Reason And Nature: The Meaning of Scientific Method (London: Free Press, 1953); J. Earman, ed., Testing Scientific Theories (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. X).
These authors include: Robert Ackermann, Data, Instruments, and Theory (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985)
Alan Franklin, The Neglect of Experiment (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Peter Galison, How Experiments End (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987)
Ian Hacking, Representing and Intervening (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983)
Patrick A. Heelan, Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science (Berkeley. University of California Press, 1983)
Don Ihde, Technics and Praxis (Boston: Reidel, 1979)
Andrew Pickering, Constructing Quarks (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984)
Joseph Rouse, Knowledge and Power: Toward a Political Philosophy of Science (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1987).
Robert A. Millikan, “The Electron and the Light-Quant from the Experimental Point of View.” Nobel Lecture of 23 May, 1924, when prizes for the year 1923 were awarded In Nobel Lectures 1922–1941 (New York: Elsevier, 1965), p. 54.
Galileo, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, trans. S. Drake (New York: Doubleday, 1957), pp. 196, 238.
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. J. Macquarrie and E Robinson (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), p. 97. The page numbers of subsequent quotations from this work will be listed in parentheses immediately following the quote.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, trans. C. Smith (New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1962), p. ix.
Antoine Artaud, The Theatre and its Double (New York: Grove, 1958), p. 41.
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Crease, R.P. (1992). The Problem of Experimentation. In: Hardy, L., Embree, L. (eds) Phenomenology of Natural Science. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2622-9_11
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