Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Isabelle f. Peschard and Bas C. van Fraassen

1. Models of Experiments

Ronald N. Giere

2. Dynamics, Data, and Noise in the Cognitive Sciences

Anthony Chemero

3. Articulating the World: Experimental Practice and Conceptual Understanding

Joseph Rouse

4. Modeling/Experimentation: The Synthetic Strategy in the Study of Genetic Circuits

Tarja Knuuttila and Andrea Loettgers

5. Will Your Policy Work? Experiments versus Models

Nancy D. Cartwright

6. Causal Content and Global Laws: Grounding Modality in Experimental Practice

Jenann Ismael

7. Experimental Flukes and Statistical Modeling in the Higgs Discovery

Deborah Mayo

8. Values and Evidence in Model-Based Climate Forecasting

Eric Winsberg

9. Validating Idealized Models

Michael Weisberg

Symposium on Measurement

10. Introduction: The Changing Debates about Measurement

Bas C. van Fraassen

11. Measurement Accuracy Realism

Paul Teller

12. Let’s Take the Metaphysical Bull by the Horns

Bas C. van Fraassen

13. Taking the Metaphysical Bull by the Horns: Completing the Job

Paul Teller

Contributors

Index of Names

Index of Subjects