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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Epistemological Dimensions of Measurement -- Part I Founding Figures -- 2 Of Compass, Chain, and Sounding Line: Taking Thoreau's Measure -- 3 Operationalism: Old Lessons and New Challenges -- Part II Images as Measurements -- 4 Photo Mensura -- 5 The Media Aesthetics of Brain Imaging in Popular Science -- 6 Compressed Sensing-A New Mode of Measurement -- 7 The Altered Image: Composite Figures and Evidential Reasoning with Mechanically Produced Images -- 8 Visual Data-Reasons to be Relied on? -- 9 Pictorial Evidence: On the Rightness of Pictures -- Part III Measuring the Immeasurable -- 10 Measurement in Medicine and Beyond: Quality of Life, Blood Pressure, and Time -- 11 Measuring Intelligence Effectively: Psychometrics from a Philosophy of Technology Perspective -- 12 The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid and the Measurement of Human Sexuality -- 13 The Desert and the Dendrograph: Place, Community, and Ecological Instrumentation -- Part IV Calibrating Mind and World -- 14 Scientific Measurement as Cognitive Integration: The Role of Cognitive Integration in the Growth of Scientific Knowledge -- 15 Measurements in the Engineering Sciences: An Epistemology of Producing Knowledge of Physical Phenomena -- 16 Uncertainty and Modeling in Seismology -- 17 A Model-Based Epistemology of Measurement -- Index
Llegir més - Autors Nicola Mössner, Alfred Nordmann
- ISBN13 9781848936027
- ISBN10 1848936028
- Pàgines 262
- Any Edició 2026
- Fecha de publicación 11/05/2026
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Reasoning in Measurement
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- Nicola Mössner, Alfred Nordmann
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- Pickering & Chatto (2026)
- 9781848936027



