The Structure of Experimentation and the Replication Degree—Reconsidering the Replication of Hertz’s Cathode Ray Experiment

Chen, Ruey-Lin

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“…354-355) argues that his characterization of experimental individuation is theory-independent in the following way. He follows Radder (1995) and Chen (2007) in distinguishing three parts of an experiment: its design, its performance, and the interpretation of its results. Chen admits that the design of an experiment and the interpretation of its results may depend on theory.…”

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Experimental individuation and philosophical retail arguments

Chen

Hricko²

2019

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This paper aims to defend the use of the notion of experimental individuation, which has recently been developed by Ruey-Lin Chen, as a criterion for the reality of theoretical entities. In short, when scientists experimentally individuate an entity, a realist conclusion about that entity is warranted. We embed this claim regarding experimental individuation within a framework that allows for other criteria of reality. And we understand so-called retail arguments regarding the reality of a particular theoretical entity as arguments that concern choosing an appropriate criterion of reality for that entity and determining whether the relevant first-order scientific evidence satisfies that criterion. We argue that such retail arguments are philosophical because defending criteria of reality, and showing that they are or are not satisfied in particular cases, involves work that is distinctively philosophical. And we illustrate this philosophical work by applying our criterion of experimental individuation to three historical cases: Davy's potassium, Lavoisier's muriatic radical, and Thomson's electrified particles.

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Section: Theory Experiment and Individuationmentioning

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Experimental individuation and philosophical retail arguments

Chen

Hricko²

2019

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“…Members of the third generation, who got their degrees after 1990, studied history of philosophy of science (e.g., Yuann 2007), realism and antirealism (e.g., R.-L. Chen 2003Chen , 2008Wang and S.-T. Chen 2008), the structure and development of theories (e.g., R.-L. Chen 2000Chen , 2004b, model and experimentation (e.g., R.-L. Chen 2004aChen , 2007, and the methodology of economics (e.g., Chao 2007Chao , 2009S.-T. Chen 2009). Naturalized Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, coedited by Mi Chien-Kuo 米建國 and Chen Ruey-Lin 陳瑞麟, and Representation and Structure in Economics by Chao Hsiang-Ke 趙相科 are two important publications of this generation.…”

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The STS Challenge to Philosophy of Science in Taiwan

Chen

2011

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Jo

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This article discusses the relation between the tradition of the philosophy of science and the tradition of science, technology, and society (STS) studies in Taiwan. The swiftly rising popularity of STS studies has issued a challenge to philosophy of science, whose practitioners have amounted to a relatively small community. The STS challenge is measurable in the increase in the number of scholars who have lost interest in philosophical debates. They doubted that these sorts of debates were far from the reality of science, technology, and society. Since philosophical debate within STS studies is a form peculiar to philosophy of science, this lack of interest can be read as symptomatic of a general skepticism on the necessity of philosophy of science. This paper argues that philosophy of science can provide useful models for the development of STS studies in Taiwan. Furthermore, philosophy of science can benefit from the rise of STS studies, so long as philosophers respond to the challenge. This paper sets out several strategies for such responses, and suggests that the philosophy of science should play a crucial role. This suggestion raises the question of whether philosophers of science are more suitable interlocutors to the scholars of STS studies than are philosophers of technology. Abstract本文討論台灣的科學哲學傳統和科技與社會研究的傳統，兩者之間的關係。科技與社會研究在台灣快速崛起，對於相對少數的科學哲學構成一個挑戰；一些研究者認為某種哲學辯論對於理解科技與社會無所助益、質疑它們脫離社會現實。筆者認為，科技與社會的哲學辯論是一種特別的科學哲學，因此這種質疑標誌了對科學哲學必要性的一般懷疑。本文爭論，科學哲學可以對科技與社會研究的發展提供有用的模型；反過來說，它也能受益於對方，只要科學哲學家能認真地回應科技與社會研究的挑戰。本文提出 I am greatly thankful to the two anonymous reviewers for their highly valuable comments and suggestions. The first reviewer helped me improve many sections of the article, especially the sixth. The second reviewer reminded me of four important lines that I failed to address. I regret that I was not able to remedy this failing completely, due in part to restrictions on the length of the article. My future research will, I hope, take me in a direction pointed to by both referees. I also thank Sam Gilbert for his hard copyediting. This paper is part of

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Are There Experimental Arguments Independent of Theories? In Defense of a Hackingian Approach to the Scientific Realism Debate

Chen

2023

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science

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The Structure of Experimentation and the Replication Degree—Reconsidering the Replication of Hertz’s Cathode Ray Experiment

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Experimental individuation and philosophical retail arguments

Experimental individuation and philosophical retail arguments

The STS Challenge to Philosophy of Science in Taiwan

Are There Experimental Arguments Independent of Theories? In Defense of a Hackingian Approach to the Scientific Realism Debate

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