Scientists' Reuse of Old Empirical Data: Epistemological Aspects.

This article investigates epistemological aspects of scientists' reuse of empirical data over decades and centuries. Giving examples, I discuss three respects in which empirical data are historical entities and the implications for the notion of data reuse. First, any data reuse necessitates metadat...

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Published in:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 85; no. 5; pp. 755 - 767
Main Author:	McAllister, James W.
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Dec2018
Subjects:	Social scientists Theory of knowledge Humanities Metadata Phenomenology
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost