Reasoning in Measurement.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mößner, Nicola
Other Authors:	Nordmann, Alfred
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Series:	History and philosophy of technoscience.
Subjects:	Measurement > History. Metrology > History. Measurement Metrology History
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 Epistemological Dimensions of Measurement; Part I Founding Figures; 2 Of Compass, Chain, and Sounding Line: Taking Thoreau's Measure; 3 Operationalism: Old Lessons and New Challenges; Part II Images as Measurements; 4 Photo Mensura; 5 The Media Aesthetics of Brain Imaging in Popular Science; 6 Compressed Sensing-A New Mode of Measurement; 7 The Altered Image: Composite Figures and Evidential Reasoning with Mechanically Produced Images; 8 Visual Data-Reasons to be Relied on?
9 Pictorial Evidence: On the Rightness of PicturesPart III Measuring the Immeasurable; 10 Measurement in Medicine and Beyond: Quality of Life, Blood Pressure, and Time; 11 Measuring Intelligence Effectively: Psychometrics from a Philosophy of Technology Perspective; 12 The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid and the Measurement of Human Sexuality; 13 The Desert and the Dendrograph: Place, Community, and Ecological Instrumentation; Part IV Calibrating Mind and World; 14 Scientific Measurement as Cognitive Integration: The Role of Cognitive Integration in the Growth of Scientific Knowledge.
15 Measurements in the Engineering Sciences: An Epistemology of Producing Knowledge of Physical Phenomena16 Uncertainty and Modeling in Seismology; 17 A Model-Based Epistemology of Measurement; Index.

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