Changing Order by Harry Collins
Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice
A study of how scientific facts are made in practice, arguing that replication hinges on tacit knowledge, local skills, and interpretive flexibility rather than fixed rules. Using disputes over controversial experiments, it introduces the experimenters' regress to show the circularity between judging correct results and properly built apparatus, and explains how consensus is achieved through negotiation, credibility, and community norms. It contends that scientific order is constructed through social processes without reducing knowledge to mere arbitrariness.
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- Published
- 1985
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- British
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- 250-300
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