Play of Nature: Experimentation as Performance

Author/Contributor(s):	Crease, Robert P
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Date:	12/22/1993
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Crease's brilliantly exploited theatrical analogy places scientific theorizing back into the wider context of experimental inquiry. --Robert C. Scharff

Crease attacks the mystical account of experimentation embraced by the positivist and Kantian varieties of philosophy of science, according to which experimentation takes a backseat to theory.