Astrid Shwarz's main research area concerns the status and power of concepts and images in the process of generating, stabilizing and demarcating scientific knowledge. In particular, she focuses on concepts and metaphors, scientific models, the constitution of the research objects, the influence of images and diagrams as well as popular societal visions. She is based at ETH Zurich.

• Introduction: Towards an Experimental Mode in Science, Society and Philosophy; Chapter 1 (De)Liberating the Experiment: A Different History of the Philosophy of Science; Chapter 2 The Philosophy of Inductive Sciences; Chapter 3 Whewell’s Innovation Through Renewal; Chapter 4 The Experiment in Recent Philosophy of Science; Chapter 5 Experimentation in Lab and Field; Chapter 6 Exploring the Field Ideal; Chapter 7 Stretching the Baconian Contract – but How Far?; Chapter 8 About the Epistemology and Culture of Borders/Boundaries; Chapter 9 Excursus: ‘Bridging Science’ or ‘Problem-Based Science’?; Chapter 10 Ecotechnology Complements Ecoscience: Probing A Framework; Chapter 11 On the Pleasures of Ecotechnology; Chapter 12 Conducting a Social Experiment: ‘Building with Nature’; Chapter 13 Political Economy of Experiments; conclusion Conclusion: Experiments in Practice – The Work of Experiments;