Measurement,coordination, and the relativized a priori |
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| Affiliation: | 1. College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, 2-11-1 Shin-ei, Narashino, Chiba 275-8576, Japan;2. Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom;3. Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Országház utca 30, 1014 Budapest, Hungary;1. Laboratoire Commun de Métrologie LNE-Cnam, 61 rue du Landy, 93210 La Plaine Saint-Denis, France;2. Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Campus Ji-Paraná, Rondônia 76900-726, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | The problem of measurement is a central issue in the epistemology and methodology of the physical sciences. In recent literature on scientific representation, large emphasis has been put on the “constitutive role” played by measurement procedures as forms of representation. Despite its importance, this issue hardly finds any mention in writings on constitutive principles, viz. in Michael Friedman׳s account of relativized a priori principles. This issue, instead, was at the heart of Reichenbach׳s analysis of coordinating principles that has inspired Friedman׳s interpretation. This paper suggests that these procedures should have a part in an account of constitutive principles of science, and that they could be interpreted following the intuition originally present (but ultimately not fully developed) in Reichenbach׳s early work. |
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| Keywords: | Coordination Measurement Relativized a priori Hans Reichenbach Michael Friedman |
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