ABSTRACT
This familiar slogan is often thought to capture the epistemic importance and power attributed to experiment. But decades after Hacking 1 and others popularized it in philosophical circles, we are still in need of building a full-bodied philosophy of experiment.
How should we understand this slogan?
Where does the separate life of experiment take place?
How does it manage to get a life of its own?
Why should it want its own life?
