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Reasoning in Measurement

By Alfred Nordmann , Nicola Mößner

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
1848936028, 9781848936027
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1375003 bytes)
Series
History and Philosophy of Technoscience
Edition
1
Pages
274\275
Time added
2018-05-31 11:01:30
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Description

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.

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