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      Reasoning in Measurement
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      Reasoning in Measurement book

      Edited ByNicola Mößner, Alfred Nordmann
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 9 March 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781781448717
      Pages 274
      eBook ISBN 9781781448717
      Subjects Humanities
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      Mößner, N., & Nordmann, A. (Eds.). (2017). Reasoning in Measurement (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781781448717

      ABSTRACT

      This collection offers a new understanding of the epistemology of measurement. The interdisciplinary volume explores how measurements are produced, for example, in astronomy and seismology, in studies of human sexuality and ecology, in brain imaging and intelligence testing. It considers photography as a measurement technology and Henry David Thoreau's poetic measures as closing the gap between mind and world.

      By focusing on measurements as the hard-won results of conceptual as well as technical operations, the authors of the book no longer presuppose that measurement is always and exclusively a means of representing some feature of a target object or entity. Measurement also provides knowledge about the degree to which things have been standardized or harmonized – it is an indicator of how closely human practices are attuned to each other and the world.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|8 pages

      Epistemological Dimensions of Measurement

      ByNICOLA MÖSSNER, ALFRED NORDMANN

      part |2 pages

      Part I Founding Figures

      chapter 2|14 pages

      Of Compass, Chain, and Sounding Line: Taking Thoreau’s Measure

      chapter 3|14 pages

      Operationalism: Old Lessons and New Challenges

      ByHASOK CHANG

      part |2 pages

      Part II Images as Measurements

      chapter 4|16 pages

      Photo Mensura

      ByPATRICK MAYNARD

      chapter 5|16 pages

      The Media Aesthetics of Brain Imaging in Popular Science

      ByLIV HAUSKEN

      chapter 6|14 pages

      Compressed Sensing—A New Mode of Measurement

      ByTHOMAS VOGT

      chapter 7|12 pages

      The Altered Image: Composite Figures and Evidential Reasoning with Mechanically Produced Images

      chapter 8|12 pages

      Visual Data—Reasons to be Relied on?

      ByNICOLA MÖSSNER

      chapter 9|20 pages

      Pictorial Evidence: On the Rightness of Pictures

      ByTOBIAS SCHÖTTLER

      part |2 pages

      Part III Measuring the Immeasurable

      chapter 10|14 pages

      Measurement in Medicine and Beyond: Quality of Life, Blood Pressure, and Time

      chapter 11|10 pages

      Measuring Intelligence Effectively: Psychometrics from a Philosophy of Technology Perspective

      chapter 12|13 pages

      The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid and the Measurement of Human Sexuality

      chapter 13|17 pages

      The Desert and the Dendrograph: Place, Community, and Ecological Instrumentation

      part |2 pages

      Part IV Calibrating Mind and World

      chapter 14|14 pages

      Scientific Measurement as Cognitive Integration: The Role of Cognitive Integration in the Growth of Scientific Knowledge

      chapter 15|17 pages

      Measurements in the Engineering Sciences: An Epistemology of Producing Knowledge of Physical Phenomena

      chapter 16|13 pages

      Uncertainty and Modeling in Seismology

      ByTERU MIYAKE

      chapter 17|21 pages

      A Model-Based Epistemology of Measurement

      ByERAN TAL
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