References and Further Reading

Ackermann, R. J. (1985). Data, Instruments and Theory: A Dialectical Approach to Understanding Science (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press).

Ackermann, R. (1989). “The New Experimentalism,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 40 (2): 185–90.

Baird, D. F. and Faust, Thomas (1990). “Scientific Instruments, Scientific Progress and the Cyclotron.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 41 (2): 147–75.

Boon, M. (2004). “Technological Instruments in Scientific Experimentation,” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 18 (2–3): 221–30.

Bunge, M. (1966). “Technology as Applied Science,” in Contributions to a Philosophy of Technology (Dordrecht/Boston, Mass.: F. Rapp./Reidel Publishing), pp. 19–39.

Cartwright, N. (1983). How the Laws of Physics Lie (Oxford: Clarendon Press).

Cartwright, N. (1989). Nature’s Capacities and Their Measurement (Oxford: Clarendon Press).

Cartwright, N. (1999). The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Chalmers, A. (2003). “The Theory-Dependence of the Use of Instruments in Science,” Philosophy of Science, 70 (3): 493–509.

Chang, H. (2004). Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Franklin, A. (1986). The Neglect of Experiment. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. Franklin, Allan, “Experiment in Physics,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2002 Edition), Edward ...

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