Knowing Instruments: Design, Reliability, and Scientific Practice
This dissertation is an attempt to understand the role of instruments in the process of knowledge production in science. I ask: how can we trust scientific instruments and what do we learn about when we use them? The dissertation has four parts. First, I construct a novel account of “epistemic possi...
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| Language: | en_ca |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32318 |