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INTERPRETIVE PRAXIS AND THEORY‐NETWORKS
Author(s) -
LEE SANGWON
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2006.00256.x
Subject(s) - praxis , interpretation (philosophy) , epistemology , observable , computer science , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language
I develop the idea of what I call an interpretive praxis as a generalized procedure for analyzing how experimenters can formulate observable predictions, discern real effects from experimental artifacts, and compare predictions with data. An interpretive praxis requires theories – theories not only about instruments and the interpretation of phenomena, but also theories that connect the use of instruments and interpretation of phenomena to high‐level theory. I will call all such theories that enable experimentation to work intermediate theories . I offer an account of theory‐networks that embrace these intermediate theories and explain their functions.