Are Statistics Only Made of Data?
Éric Brian
Gebundenes Buch

Are Statistics Only Made of Data?

Know-how and Presupposition from the 17th and 19th Centuries

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This book examines several epistemological regimes in studies of numerical data over the last four centuries. It distinguishes these regimes and mobilises questions present in the philosophy of science, sociology and historical works throughout the 20th century. Attention is given to the skills of scholars and their methods, their assumptions, and the socio-historical conditions that made calculations and their interpretations possible. In doing so, questions posed as early as Émile Durkheim's and Ernst Cassirer's ones are revisited and the concept of symbolic form is put to the test in this ...