Play of Nature: Experimentation as Performance

by Robert P. Crease

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253314747
• ISBN13: 9780253314741
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher