Reasoning in Measurement
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Reasoning in Measurement

Reasoning in Measurement

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This collection offers a new understanding of the epistemology of measurement. The interdisciplinary volume explores how measurements are produced, for example, in astronomy and seismology, in studies of human sexuality and ecology, in brain imaging and intelligence testing. It considers photography as a measurement technology and Henry David Thoreau's poetic measures as closing the gap between mind and world. By focusing on measurements as the hard-won results of conceptual as well as technical operations, the authors of the book no longer presuppose that measurement is always and exclusively a means of representing some feature of a target object or entity. Measurement also provides knowledge about the degree to which things have been standardized or harmonized – it is an indicator of how closely human practices are attuned to each other and the world.

Table of Contents:
1 Epistemological Dimensions of Measurement Nicola Mößner and Alfred Nordmann PART I Founding Figures 2 Of Compass, Chain, and Sounding Line: Taking Thoreau’s Measure Laura Dassow Walls 3 Operationalism: Old Lessons and New Challenges Hasok Chang PART II Images as Measurements 4 Photo Mensura Patrick Maynard 5 The Media Aesthetics of Brain Imaging in Popular Science Liv Hausken 6 Compressed Sensing – A New Mode of Measurement Thomas Vogt 7 The Altered Image: Composite Figures and Evidential Reasoning with Mechanically Produced Images Laura Perini 8 Visual Data – Reasons to be Relied on? Nicola Mößner 9 Pictorial Evidence: On the Rightness of Pictures Tobias Schöttler PART III Measuring the Immeasurable 10 Measurement in Medicine and Beyond: Quality of Life, Blood Pressure and Time Leah McClimans 11 Measuring Intelligence Effectively: Psychometrics from a Philosophy of Technology Perspective Andreas Kaminski 12 The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid and the Measurement of Human Sexuality Donna J. Drucker 13 The Desert and the Dendrograph: Place, Community and Ecological Instrumentation Emily K. Brock PART IV Calibrating Mind and World 14 Scientific Measurement as Cognitive Integration: The Role of Cognitive Integration in the Growth of Scientific Knowledge Godfrey Guillaumin 15 Measurements in the Engineering Sciences: An Epistemology of Producing Knowledge of Physical Phenomena Mieke Boon 16 Uncertainty and Modeling in Seismology Teru Miyake 17 A Model-Based Epistemology of Measurement Eran Tal Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781138331945
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 274
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1138331945
  • Publisher Date: 14 Aug 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 440 gr


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