The Play of Nature: Experimentation as Performance

by Robert P. Crease

"Crease's brilliantly exploited theatrical analogy places scientific theorizing back into the wider context of experimental inquiry." ―Robert C. Scharff

Crease attacks the "mystical" account of experimentation embraced by the positivist and Kantian varieties of philosophy of science, according to which experimentation takes a backseat to theory.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Professor Robert P. Crease is Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, New York.