Yves Gingras's research while affiliated with Université du Québec à Montréal and other places

Publications (5)

Chapter
This introduction aims at raising the central questions that will be discussed throughout the book in a variety of ways, adapted to each scientific discipline. What is experimentation, and what distinguishes it from observation in different disciplines? What epistemic status should experimentation have in relation to theory? In which institutional...
Chapter
This chapter presents the different purposes of observation and experiment in physics using examples that allow us to grasp the historical transformations linked to the development of instrumentation. We cover both the observational and experimental aspects of this discipline, which range from astronomy and astrophysics to nuclear and particle phys...
Book
Cet ouvrage présente un panorama des diverses manières d’expérimenter dans des disciplines appartenant aussi bien aux sciences de la nature (physique, chimie, biologie, etc.) qu’aux sciences sociales et humaines (psychologie, économie, sociologie, etc.) ou au statut mixte ou incertain comme la médecine, les sciences de gestion et l’archéologie. Com...