Play of Nature - Experimentation as Performance

"Crease's brilliantly exploited theatrical analogy places scientific theorizing back into the wider context of experimental inquiry." -Robert C. Scharff
Crease attacks the "mystical" account of experimentation embraced by the positivist and Kantian varieties of philosophy of science, according to which experimentation takes a backseat to theory.

About the author

ROBERT P. CREASE is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and co-author (with Charles Mann) of The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics.

Product details

• Authors: Robert P. Crease
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.1993
• EAN: 9780253314741
• ISBN: 978-0-253-31474-1
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 478 g
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works