From successful measurement to the birth of a law: Disentangling coordination in Ohm's scientific practice.

M. Luchetti

DOI:10.1016/J.SHPSA.2020.09.005

Corpus ID: 224930042

From successful measurement to the birth of a law: Disentangling coordination in Ohm's scientific practice.

@article{Luchetti2020FromSM,
  title={From successful measurement to the birth of a law: Disentangling coordination in Ohm's scientific practice.},
  author={M. Luchetti},
  journal={Studies in history and philosophy of science},
  year={2020},
  volume={84},
  pages={
          119-131
        }
}

M. Luchetti

Published 2020

Computer Science, Medicine

Studies in history and philosophy of science

In this paper, I argue for a distinction between two scales of coordination in scientific inquiry, through which I reassess Georg Simon Ohm's work on conductivity and resistance. Firstly, I propose to distinguish between measurement coordination, which refers to the specific problem of how to justify the attribution of values to a quantity by using a certain measurement procedure, and general coordination, which refers to the broader issue of justifying the representation of an empirical… CONTINUE READING

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