Abstract
• I discuss a rare instance of experimental research in the sociology of science. • Experimentation can be understood in ‘representational’ and ‘generative’ terms. • Critiques on Collins & Evans' Imitation Game program are framed in a ‘representational register’. • The imitation game is more usefully understood as a ‘generative experiment’. • This has implications for the knowledge produced by such experiments.
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