Comparition About The Concept Of Experiment Between Collins And Hacking

Experiment study is the important research field in SSK. As the main representative of Bath School, Collins did lots of micro—research on scientific experiments, and gave some explains about experiment study from social constructivism. Collins put forward that: experimental conclution is the result of negotiation and social factor affects importantly in the outcome of scientific theory.As the main representative of the New Experimentalism, Hacking rediscovered the essence, poverties and role of experiment in scientific studies ,put forward that theexperiment has life of his own, we should go along from representationalism to practice . These opinions have important significance to form a new approach for composing practice-dominance philosophy of science.This paper mainly discusses and compares the opinion about scientific experiments from Collins and Hacking .Have no question , to the study about philosophy of science, it will have theoretical significance .