Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress

By Hasok Chang. 2004

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, History and Philosophy of Science

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Models and Modelling in Physics Education: A Critical Re-analysis of Philosophical Underpinnings and Suggestions for Revisions (2007, background): “…should be noted that physics history does not support the argument that physicists are realists beyond ontological or entity realism, and that with respect to theories, many physicists have been anti-realists, even instrumentalists (see discussions in e.g. Fine 1996; Heidelberger 1998; Chang 2004).”
Compendium of the Foundations of Classical Statistical Physics (2007, background): “The first is the science of calorimetry, which was already developed to theoretical perfection in the eighteenth century, in particular by Joseph Black (Fox 1971, Truesdell 1980, Chang 2003,2004).”
Strongly-Typed Recurrent Neural Networks (2016, background): “Hard-won experience in physics (Chang, 2004), software engineering (Dijkstra, 1968), and other fields has led to the conclusion that well-chosen constraints are crucial to effective reasoning.”
What Counts as Scientific Data? A Relational Framework (2015, methodology): “Given the iterativity characterizing the processes through which data are produced and disseminated (Chang 2004; O ’ Malley 2011), trying to differentiate be-tween the marks produced by scienti ﬁ c inquiry and those obtained through further manipulation seems arbitrary.”
Constructing interval variables via faceted Rasch measurement and multitask deep learning: a hate speech application (2020, neutral): “Rather than detecting or classifying hate speech as a dichotomous yes/no label, measuring hate speech would place a given text observation on an interval spectrum (e.g. a ruler) in which numeric differences are meaningful, similar to physical measurement systems such as temperature (Chang, 2004).”
Measurement: A Very Short Introduction—Rejoinder to discussion (2016, background): “Chang (2004), for example, describes hundreds of years involved in establishing a temperature construct.””
How do models give us knowledge? The case of Carnot’s ideal heat engine (2011, methodology): “…replaced by the idea of the conservation of energy (which is the first law of thermodynamics) by the work of his successors such as Thomson (also see Chang, 2004). xi The Engines of Our Ingenuity is Copyright © 1988-2004 by John H. Lienhard. http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1958.htm xii One should…”
How Accurate Is the Standard Second? (2011, background): “Notable exceptions are Chang (2004) and Boumans (2007).”