In this post I’ll continue on directly from part 1 where we ended up with a lot of models and a recognition of competing interpretations of quality along with a need for testability. Continue reading Testing: From Aristotelian to Galilean, Part 2 →

Any discipline can focus along a spectrum of thinking. That’s no less true of testing, of course. The spectrum I want to introduce from history is that of moving from an Aristotelian to a Galilean way of thinking and “doing science” which, in many ways, is synonymous with “doing testing.” Continue reading Testing: From Aristotelian to Galilean, Part 1 →

Continuing on from the first and second posts in this series, let’s look at how testing, as it came to be in a scientific context, challenged a bit of orthodoxy. Continue reading When Testing Questioned Orthodoxy →

In the first post in this series, I ended by focusing a bit on Galileo who started to make the idea of testing what it eventually would be recognized as today. That’s the same thing as saying Galileo effectively produced one of the first attempts to make science as it is known today. Let’s continue this path of investigation. Continue reading When Testing Questioned Philosophy →

As I’ve been teaching the history of science and religion recently, some interesting ideas have formed in my head around how to present certain topics as they relate to testing. This is crucial since testing is the basis of effective experimentation. So here I’ll talk very briefly about how testing truly became testing. Continue reading When Testing Became Scientific →