Feest / Steinle Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-025361-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten

Reihe: ISSN

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feest, Uljana

Steinle, Friedrich

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Interdisziplinär Finanz- und Versicherungsmathematik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsmathematik und -statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice: Introduction;7
2;Concept as Vessel and Concept as Use;29
3;Rethinking Scientific Concepts for Research Contexts: The Case of the Classical Gene;53
4;The Dynamics of Scientific Concepts: The Relevance of Epistemic Aims and Values;81
5;Goals and Fates of Concepts: The Case of Magnetic Poles;111
6;Mathematical Concepts and Investigative Practice;133
7;Experimentation and the Meaning of Scientific Concepts;155
8;Exploratory Experiments, Concept Formation, and Theory Construction in Psychology;173
9;Early Concepts in Investigative Practice – The Case of the Virus;197
10;Scientific Concepts in the Engineering Sciences: Epistemic Tools for Creating and Intervening with Phenomena;225
11;Modeling Practices in Conceptual Innovation: An Ethnographic Study of a Neural Engineering Research Laboratory;251
12;Conceptual Development in Interdisciplinary Research;277
13;List of Contributors;299
14;Index;303

Über Autor(innen)

Uljana Feest and Friedrich Steinle, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.