03907nam 22007215 450 991084249220332120250807133317.09783031512544303151254510.1007/978-3-031-51254-4(MiAaPQ)EBC31209117(Au-PeEL)EBL31209117(DE-He213)978-3-031-51254-4(CKB)30864441700041(OCoLC)1427063517(EXLCZ)993086444170004120240312d2024 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAre Statistics Only Made of Data? Know-how and Presupposition from the 17th and 19th Centuries /by Éric Brian1st ed. 2024.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2024.1 online resource (181 pages)Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences,2542-9892 ;209783031512537 3031512537 Foreword: The Peculiar Meanings of Data -- Chapter 1: Considering Data: Critique and Method -- Chapter 2: Data Arithmetic, Ratios and Mechanical Reasoning in the 17th Century -- Chapter 3: Analytical Probability, Averages and Data Distributions in the 19th Century -- Chapter 4: Idols, Paradigms and Specters in Data Sciences -- List of illustations.-List of references.-General index.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 particular survey, conducted over long period of time. Although distinct from a methodological and epistemological point of view, today these regimes may be found together in the toolbox of statisticians and those who comment on their conclusions. As such, the book is addressed to social scientists and historians and all those who are interested in numerical productions. This book is a translation of an original French edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences,2542-9892 ;20Social sciencesSampling (Statistics)StatisticsHistorySciencePhilosophyKnowledge, Theory ofSocietyMethodology of Data Collection and ProcessingHistory of StatisticsPhilosophy of ScienceEpistemologySocial sciences.Sampling (Statistics)Statistics.History.SciencePhilosophy.Knowledge, Theory of.Society.Methodology of Data Collection and Processing.History of Statistics.Philosophy of Science.Epistemology.300Brian Eric0MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910842492203321Are Statistics Only Made of Data4147902UNINA