Thing Knowledge : A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments /
Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenges this fundamental notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments, can express knowledge. As he considers num...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2004.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Instrument epistemology
- Models : representing things
- Working knowledge
- Encapsulating knowledge
- The instrumentation revolution
- Thing knowledge
- The thing-y-ness of things
- Between technology and science
- Instrumental objectivity
- The gift.