Reasoning in Measurement

Nicola Mner, Junior Fellow at Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald in Germany. She received her M.A. in German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Mnster. Her thesis is about the epistemology of testimony and the special case of media reports, published as Wissen aus dem Zeugnis anderer der Sonderfall medialer Berichterstattung (Paderborn: mentis 2010). Currently she works on a research project concerning the epistemic role of visualisations in science. In this context, she edited (together with Dimitri Liebsch) Visualisierung und Erkenntnis Bildverstehen und Bildverwenden in Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften (Cologne: Herbert von Halem 2012). Her main interests comprise philosophy of science and social epistemology. Alfred Nordmann, professor of Philosophy at the Technische Universitt Darmstadt and adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Nordmanns interests in the philosophy of science concern the formation and contestation of fields of inquiry such as chemistry and theories of electricity in the 18th century, mechanics, evolutionary biology, and sociology in the 19th century. In particular, he sought to articulate implicit concepts of science and objectivity. In 2000, he embarked on a similar endeavor in regard to nanoscience and converging technologies which has led him to promote and develop a comprehensive philosophy of technoscience. Since the technosciences require new answers to the familiar questions of knowledge and objectivity, theory and evidence, explanation and validation, representation and experimentation, Nordmann is seeking to address these and related questions in his current work.

1 Epistemological Dimensions of Measurement Nicola Mner and Alfred Nordmann PART I Founding Figures 2 Of Compass, Chain, and Sounding Line: Taking Thoreaus Measure Laura Dassow Walls 3 Operationalism: Old Lessons and New Challenges Hasok Chang PART II Images as Measurements 4 Photo Mensura Patrick Maynard 5 The Media Aesthetics of Brain Imaging in Popular Science Liv Hausken 6 Compressed Sensing A New Mode of Measurement Thomas Vogt 7 The Altered Image: Composite Figures and Evidential Reasoning with Mechanically Produced Images Laura Perini 8 Visual Data Reasons to be Relied on? Nicola Mner 9 Pictorial Evidence: On the Rightness of Pictures Tobias Schttler PART III Measuring the Immeasurable 10 Measurement in Medicine and Beyond: Quality of Life, Blood Pressure and Time Leah McClimans 11 Measuring Intelligence Effectively: Psychometrics from a Philosophy of Technology Perspective Andreas Kaminski 12 The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid and the Measurement of Human Sexuality Donna J. Drucker 13 The Desert and the Dendrograph: Place, Community and Ecological Instrumentation Emily K. Brock PART IV Calibrating Mind and World 14 Scientific Measurement as Cognitive Integration: The Role of Cognitive Integration in the Growth of Scientific Knowledge Godfrey Guillaumin 15 Measurements in the Engineering Sciences: An Epistemology of Producing Knowledge of Physical Phenomena Mieke Boon 16 Uncertainty and Modeling in Seismology Teru Miyake 17 A Model-Based Epistemology of Measurement Eran Tal Index