“Exploratory experimentation” as a probe into the relation between historiography and philosophy of science |
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| Authors: | Jutta Schickore |
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| Institution: | Indiana University, United States;Indiana University, United States;Université Paris-Sorbonne, SND, Paris, France;Department of Philosophy and Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment, Connecticut College, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New London, CT 06320, USA;University of Calgary, Canada;Connecticut College, United States;Philosophy Department, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary T2N1N4, Alberta, Canada;Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 50 Old Elvet, Durham, County Durham, DH1 3HN, United Kingdom;Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | This essay utilizes the concept “exploratory experimentation” as a probe into the relation between historiography and philosophy of science. The essay traces the emergence of the historiographical concept “exploratory experimentation” in the late 1990s. The reconstruction of the early discussions about exploratory experimentation shows that the introduction of the concept had unintended consequences: Initially designed to debunk philosophical ideas about theory testing, the concept “exploratory experimentation” quickly exposed the poverty of our conceptual tools for the analysis of experimental practice. Looking back at a number of detailed analyses of experimental research, we can now appreciate that the concept of exploratory experimentation is too vague and too elusive to fill the desideratum whose existence it revealed. |
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| Keywords: | Exploratory experiments Historiography Theory testing Triangulation |
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