03985nam a22006255i 4500 978-3-031-51254-4 DE-He213 20251030111507.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240312s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031512544 978-3-031-51254-4 10.1007/978-3-031-51254-4 doi H1-970.9 J bicssc JHB bicssc SOC000000 bisacsh J thema JHB thema Brian, Éric. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 72686 Are Statistics Only Made of Data? [electronic resource] : Know-how and Presupposition from the 17th and 19th Centuries / by Éric Brian. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XIII, 169 p. 20 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences, 2542-9892 ; 20 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. Social sciences. 61373 Sampling (Statistics). 59805 Statistics . 65982 History. Science Philosophy. 63307 Knowledge, Theory of. 59222 Society. 63688 Methodology of Data Collection and Processing. 65946 History of Statistics. 72687 Philosophy of Science. 68560 Epistemology. 69783 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031512537 Printed edition: 9783031512551 Printed edition: 9783031512568 Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences, 2542-9892 ; 20 72688 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51254-4 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 58197 58197