Error and uncertainty in scientific practice

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Error and uncertainty in scientific practice

edited by Marcel Boumans, Giora Hon and Arthur Petersen

(History and philosophy of technoscience, 1)

Pickering & Chatto, 2014

  • : [hbk.]

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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

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