TY - JOUR
AU1 - Okasha, Samir
AB - 222 | samir okasha Lewis, D. 1986b. On the Plurality of Worlds. Oxford: Blackwell. Lewis, D. 1994. Humean supervenience debugged. Mind 103: 473–90. Morrison, M. 1995. The new aspect: symmetries as meta–laws – structural metaphysics. In Laws of Nature: Essays on the Philosophical, Scientific and Historical Dimensions, ed. F. Weinert, 157–88. Berlin: de Gruyter. Wigner, E.P. 1972. Events, laws of nature, and invariance principles. In Nobel Lectures: Physics 1963–1970. 6–19. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Wigner, E.P. 1985. Events, laws of nature, and invariance principles. In How Far Are We from the Gauge Forces – Proceedings of the 21st Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics, 3–14 August 1983, Enrice Sicily, ed. A. Zichichi, 699–708. New York, London: Plenum. SAMIR OKASHA It is customary to distinguish experimental from purely observational sciences. The former include physics and molecular biology, the latter astron- omy and palaeontology. Experiments involve actively intervening in the course of nature, as opposed to observing events that would have happened anyway. When a molecular biologist inserts viral DNA into a bacterium in his laboratory, this is an experiment; but when an astronomer points his telescope at the heavens, this is an observation. Without the biologist’s han- diwork the bacterium 
TI - Experiment, observation and the confirmation of laws
JF - Analysis
DO - 10.1093/analys/anr014
DA - 2011-04-14
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SP - 222
EP - 232
VL - 71
IS - 2
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