Notre visée, dans cet article, consiste à souligner que la prise en compte d'une stratégie couramment employée par les chercheurs au sein des sciences expérimentales, l'interinstrumentalité, permet de réduire l'impact des facteurs micro- et macrosociaux, privilégiés par les tenants du programme relativiste empirique de Harry Collins, lorsqu'il s'agit d'expliquer la clôture des débats sur la valeur à conférer aux données collectées. Deux études de cas, l'une portant sur l'histoire de l'invention du microscope à effet tunnel, l'autre sur une recherche déterminée au sein d'un laboratoire de physique des surfaces, nous permettent de préciser en quoi l'interinstrumentalité contribue à l'objectivité des résultats obtenus par les scientifiques, et en constitue une composante au même titre que l'intersubjectivité.
Our aim in this article is to show how a strategy used in the experimental sciences, strategy that we named “inter-instrumentation”, can minimize the role of micro and macro-sociological factors when one tries to understand how the debates about the interpretation of the data come to an end. To defend our point of view, we will present two examples: an historical example - the invention, of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope - and an example collected during an ethnographic study in a surface science laboratory. We would like to emphasize that inter-instrumentation contributes to the objectivity of the experimental results and constitutes a part of it as well as intersubjectivity.
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title = {De l'intersubjectivit\'e \`a l'interinstrumentalit\'e. L'exemple de la physique des surfaces},
journal = {Philosophia Scientiae},
volume = {9},
year = {2005},
pages = {3-30},
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Allamel-Raffin, Catherine. De l'intersubjectivité à l'interinstrumentalité. L'exemple de la physique des surfaces. Philosophia Scientiae, Tome 9 (2005) pp. 3-30. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/PHSC_2005__9_1_3_0/
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