Are Statistics Only Made of Data?
Know-how and Presupposition from the 17th and 19th Centuries
Éric Brian
Are Statistics Only Made of Data?
Know-how and Presupposition from the 17th and 19th Centuries
Éric Brian
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Description
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.
After a dissertation in Mathematical Statistics and another in History and Social Sciences, Éric Brian became a Professor at EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France) and between 2002 and 2018 guest professor at the Institut für Philosphie at the University of Vienna, Austria. At EHESS, he is the current holder of the Chairs “History of Probabilities and Statistics” and “Historical sociology of symbolic instruments”. Since 1995, he is the editor of Revue de Synthèse, a journal at the crossroads of History, Social Sciences and Philosophy created in1900.