Information and Experimental Knowledge

By: James Mattingly

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Hardcover | 13 December 2021 | Edition Number 1

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An ambitious new model of experimentation that will reorient our understanding of the key features of experimental practice.

What is experimental knowledge, and how do we get it? While there is general agreement that experiment is a crucial source of scientific knowledge, how experiment generates that knowledge is far more contentious. In this book, philosopher of science James Mattingly explains how experiments function. Specifically, he discusses what it is about experimental practice that transforms observations of what may be very localized, particular, isolated systems into what may be global, general, integrated empirical knowledge. Mattingly argues that the purpose of experimentation is the same as the purpose of any other knowledge-generating enterpriseâ"to change the state of information of the knower. This trivial-seeming point has a non-trivial consequence: to understand a knowledge-generating enterprise, we should follow the flow of information. Therefore, the account of experimental knowledge Mattingly provides is based on understanding how information flows in experiments: what facilitates that flow, what hinders it, and what characteristics allow it to flow from system to system, into the heads of researchers, and finally into our store of scientific knowledge.

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"A very stimulating and original exploration of a large number of issues linked to the role of experimentation in science. These include, among many others, the connection between experiments and causal inference, the notion of experimental replication, and the relationship between thought experiments and more ordinary experiments. Mattingly defends a novel account of experiments as having to do with the flow of information between proximate systems which are the immediate objects of experimentation and the more distal systems which we use experiments to learn about. I strongly recommend this thought-provoking book to anyone with an interest in these topics." -- James Woodward, University of Pittsburgh

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