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How can we measure intelligence or quality of life? Building on recent developments in the sciences, this collection offers new understanding of the epistemology of measurement. The case studies foster important dialogue between disparate fields, exploring diverse topics such as brain imaging, sexual orientation and seismology. By taking an interdisciplinary perspective, these essays highlight the significance of both qualitative and quantitative approaches to scientific practice, where models, images, instruments and methods all play a major role. The book will be of interest to historians, scientific practitioners, metrologists and philosophers of technology and engineering.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Epistemological Dimensions of Measurement – Nicola Mößner and Alfred Nordmann Part I: Founding Figures 1 Of Compass, Chain, and Sounding Line: Taking Thoreau’s Measure – Laura Dassow Walls 2 Operationalism: Old Lessons and New Challenges – Hasok Chang Part II: Images as Measurements 3 Photo Mensura – Patrick Maynard 4 The Altered Image: Composite Figures and Evidential Reasoning With Mechanically Produced Images – Laura Perini 5 Visual Data – Reasons to Be Relied on? – Nicola Mößner 6 Pictorial Evidence: On the Rightness of Pictures – Tobias Schöttler 7 The Media Aesthetics Of Brain Imaging in Popular Science – Liv Hausken 8 Compressed Sensing – A New Mode of Measurement – Thomas Vogt Part III: Measuring the Immeasurable 9 Measurement in Medicine and Beyond: Quality of Life, Blood Pressure and Time – Leah McClimans 10 Measuring Intelligence Effectively - Psychometrics from a Philosophy of Technology Perspective – Andreas Kaminski 11 The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid and the Measurement of Human Sexuality – Donna J Drucker 12 The Desert and the Dendograph: Place, Community, and Ecological Instrumentation – Emily K Brock Part IV: Attunements 13 Scientific Measurement as Cognitive Integration: The Role of Cognitive Integration in the Growth of Scientific Knowledge – Godfrey Guillaumin 14 Uncertainty and Modelling in Seismology – Teru Miyake 15 Measurements in the Engineering Sciences: An Epistemology of Producing Knowledge of Physical Phenomena – Mieke Boon 16 A Model-Based Epistemology of Measurement – Eran Tal

About the Author :
Nicola Mößner is based at the Department of Philosophy, RWTH Aachen University. Her research interests cover Philosophy of Science, Picture Theory, Social Epistemology and Knowledge by Testimony. Alfred Nordmann is Professor of Philosophy and History of Science and Technoscience at Darmstadt Technical University and visiting professor at the University of South Carolina. His research interests focus on the philosophy of science and technoscience, epistemology and the philosophical dimensions of nanotechnology, synthetic biology and climate engineering. Recent publications include 'Object Lessons – Towards an Epistemology of Technoscience', Scientia Studiae (2012).


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  • ISBN-13: 9781781448717
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: History and Philosophy of Technoscience
  • ISBN-10: 178144871X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2015
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 256


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