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Anderson, E., 2004, “Uses of Value Judgments in Science: A General Argument, with Lessons from a Case Study of Feminist Research on Divorce,” Hypatia, 19(1): 1–24. (Scholar)
Aristotle(a), Generation of Animals in Complete Works of Aristotle (Volume 1), J. Barnes (ed.), Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. 774–993
Aristotle(b), History of Animals in Complete Works of Aristotle (Volume 1), J. Barnes (ed.), Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. 1111–1228.
Azzouni, J., 2004, “Theory, Observation, and Scientific Realism,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 55(3): 371–92. (Scholar)
Bacon, Francis, 1620, Novum Organum with other parts of the Great Instauration, P. Urbach and J. Gibson (eds. and trans.), La Salle: Open Court, 1994. (Scholar)
Bogen, J., 2016, “Empiricism and After,”in P. Humphreys (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 779–795. (Scholar)
Bogen, J, and Woodward, J., 1988, “Saving the Phenomena,” Philosophical Review, XCVII (3): 303–352. (Scholar)
Bokulich, A., 2020, “Towards a Taxonomy of the Model-Ladenness of Data,” Philosophy of Science, 87(5): 793–806. (Scholar)
Borrelli, A., 2012, “The Case of the Composite Higgs: The Model as a ‘Rosetta Stone’ in Contemporary High-Energy Physics,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics), 43(3): 195–214. (Scholar)
Boyd, N. M., 2018, “Evidence Enriched,” Philosophy of Science, 85(3): 403–21. (Scholar)
Boyle, R., 1661, The Sceptical Chymist, Montana: Kessinger (reprint of 1661 edition). (Scholar)
Bridgman, P., 1927, The Logic of Modern Physics, New York: Macmillan. (Scholar)
Chang, H., 2005, “A Case for Old-fashioned Observability, and a Reconstructive Empiricism,” Philosophy of Science, 72(5): 876–887. (Scholar)
Collins, H. M., 1985 Changing Order, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
Conant, J.B., 1957, (ed.) “The Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory: The Chemical Revolution of 1775–1789,” in J.B.Conant and L.K. Nash (eds.), Harvard Studies in Experimental Science, Volume I, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 65–116).
Daston, L., and P. Galison, 2007, Objectivity, Brooklyn: Zone Books. (Scholar)
Douglas, H., 2000, “Inductive Risk and Values in Science,” Philosophy of Science, 67(4): 559–79. (Scholar)
–––, 2013, “The Value of Cognitive Values,” Philosophy of Science, 80(5): 796–806. (Scholar)
Duhem, P., 1906, The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, P. Wiener (tr.), Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. (Scholar)
Earman, J., 1992, Bayes or Bust?, Cambridge: MIT Press. (Scholar)
Feest, U., 2005, “Operationism in psychology: what the debate is about, what the debate should be about,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 41(2): 131–149. (Scholar)
Feyerabend, P.K., 1969, “Science Without Experience,” in P.K. Feyerabend, Realism, Rationalism, and Scientific Method (Philosophical Papers I), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 132–136. (Scholar)
Franklin, A., 1986, The Neglect of Experiment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Galison, P., 1987, How Experiments End, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1990, “Aufbau/Bauhaus: logical positivism and architectural modernism,” Critical Inquiry, 16 (4): 709–753. (Scholar)
Goodman, A., et al., 2014, “Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data,” PLoS Computational Biology, 10(4): e1003542. (Scholar)
Hacking, I., 1981, “Do We See Through a Microscope?,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 62(4): 305–322. (Scholar)
–––, 1983, Representing and Intervening, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Hanson, N.R., 1958, Patterns of Discovery, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Hempel, C.G., 1952, “Fundamentals of Concept Formation in Empirical Science,” in Foundations of the Unity of Science, Volume 2, O. Neurath, R. Carnap, C. Morris (eds.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970, pp. 651–746. (Scholar)
Herschel, J. F. W., 1830, Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1966. (Scholar)
Hooke, R., 1705, “The Method of Improving Natural Philosophy,” in R. Waller (ed.), The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke, London: Frank Cass and Company, 1971. (Scholar)
Horowitz, P., and W. Hill, 2015, The Art of Electronics, third edition, New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Intemann, K., 2021, “Feminist Perspectives on Values in Science,” in S. Crasnow and L. Intemann (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science, New York: Routledge, pp. 201–15. (Scholar)
Kuhn, T.S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, reprinted,1996. (Scholar)
Latour, B., 1999, “Circulating Reference: Sampling the Soil in the Amazon Forest,” in Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 24–79. (Scholar)
Latour, B., and Woolgar, S., 1979, Laboratory Life, The Construction of Scientific Facts, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. (Scholar)
Laymon, R., 1988, “The Michelson-Morley Experiment and the Appraisal of Theories,” in A. Donovan, L. Laudan, and R. Laudan (eds.), Scrutinizing Science: Empirical Studies of Scientific Change, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 245–266. (Scholar)
Leonelli, S., 2009, “On the Locality of Data and Claims about Phenomena,” Philosophy of Science, 76(5): 737–49. (Scholar)
Leonelli, S., and N. Tempini (eds.), 2020, Data Journeys in the Sciences, Cham: Springer. (Scholar)
Lipton, P., 1991, Inference to the Best Explanation, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
Lloyd, E.A., 1993, “Pre-theoretical Assumptions In Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality,” Philosophical Studies, 69: 139–153. (Scholar)
–––, 2012, “The Role of ‘Complex’ Empiricism in the Debates about Satellite Data and Climate Models,”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (Part A), 43(2): 390–401. (Scholar)
Longino, H., 1979, “Evidence and Hypothesis: An Analysis of Evidential Relations,” Philosophy of Science, 46(1): 35–56. (Scholar)
–––, 2020, “Afterward:Data in Transit,” in S. Leonelli and N. Tempini (eds.), Data Journeys in the Sciences, Cham: Springer, pp. 391–400. (Scholar)
Lupyan, G., 2015, “Cognitive Penetrability of Perception in the Age of Prediction – Predictive Systems are Penetrable Systems,” Review of Philosophical Psychology, 6(4): 547–569. doi:10.1007/s13164-015-0253-4 (Scholar)
Mill, J. S., 1872, System of Logic, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. (Scholar)
Norton, J., 2003, “A Material Theory of Induction,” Philosophy of Science, 70(4): 647–70. (Scholar)
–––, 2021, The Material Theory of Induction, http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/material_theory/Material_Induction_March_14_2021.pdf. (Scholar)
Nyquist, H., 1928, “Thermal Agitation of Electric Charge in Conductors,” Physical Review, 32(1): 110–13. (Scholar)
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Olesko, K.M. and Holmes, F.L., 1994, “Experiment, Quantification and Discovery: Helmholtz’s Early Physiological Researches, 1843–50,” in D. Cahan, (ed.), Hermann Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth Century Science, Berkeley: UC Press, pp. 50–108. (Scholar)
Osiander, A., 1543, “To the Reader Concerning the Hypothesis of this Work,” in N. Copernicus On the Revolutions, E. Rosen (tr., ed.), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978, p. XX. (Scholar)
Parker, W. S., 2016, “Reanalysis and Observation: What’s the Difference?,” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97(9): 1565–72. (Scholar)
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Popper, K.R.,1959, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, K.R. Popper (tr.), New York: Basic Books. (Scholar)
Rheinberger, H. J., 1997, Towards a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube, Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Scholar)
Roush, S., 2005, Tracking Truth, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Rudner, R., 1953, “The Scientist Qua Scientist Makes Value Judgments,” Philosophy of Science, 20(1): 1–6. (Scholar)
Schlick, M., 1935, “Facts and Propositions,” in Philosophy and Analysis, M. Macdonald (ed.), New York: Philosophical Library, 1954, pp. 232–236. (Scholar)
Schottky, W. H., 1918, “Über spontane Stromschwankungen in verschiedenen Elektrizitätsleitern,” Annalen der Physik, 362(23): 541–67. (Scholar)
Shapere, D., 1982, “The Concept of Observation in Science and Philosophy,” Philosophy of Science, 49(4): 485–525. (Scholar)
Stanford, K., 1991, Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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Stuewer, R.H., 1985, “Artificial Disintegration and the Cambridge-Vienna Controversy,” in P. Achinstein and O. Hannaway (eds.), Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 239–307. (Scholar)
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Woodward, J. F., 2010, “Data, Phenomena, Signal, and Noise,” Philosophy of Science, 77(5): 792–803. (Scholar)
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