Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics

tags
Peter Galison Rationalism vs Empiricism

Galison describes two often-conflicting cultures of scientific research: the culture of "image", which develops increasingly sophisticated methods of seeing the world as it is, and "logic", which develops increasingly sophisticated theories of how we should expect the world to look.

Oddly Influenced | Galison’s Image and Logic, Part 1: The stickiness of experimental tradition