Concept tag
#manipulation
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Hacking’s test for reality: if you can spray it, it’s real. Does that work for genes?
Ian Hacking, in Representing and Intervening (1983), argued that we should stop expecting theories to settle what exists. Look at the laboratory instead. Experimenters spray electrons at a target to change its charge. They use electrons as tools, reliably, to investigate something…
Started by Ignacio Cárcamo4 replies -
Asking a smoker to picture their daughter’s wedding is not manipulation
At the hospital where I interpret, a lot of the work is trying to get people to stop doing things that will kill them. Here's a familiar situation. A doctor I work with gives a patient the figures on smoking: mortality, heart…
Started by Tsion Bekele6 replies