The aim of this article is to analyze and criticize the argument of the experimenter's regress proposed by Harry Collins in 1985. To this end, we begin by discussing the experiment that aimed to detect gravity waves performed by Joseph Weber during the 1970s. We continue with analysis and discussion of both the epistemological and ontological versions of Collin's argument. Then, finally, after giving an outline of a theory of experimental reproduction and an explication of the concept of replication, we propose two ways of avoiding the experimenter's regress.
Experimenter's regress; Experiment; Experimental reproduction; Replication; Collins; Weber
