In and about the world : philosophical studies of science and technology
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In and about the world : philosophical studies of science and technology
（SUNY series in science, technology, and society / Sal Restivo and Jennifer L. Croissant, editors）
State University of New York Press, c1996
- : pbk
Available at 13 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 205-217
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Offers a new approach to a number of central issues concerning the theoretical interpretation and normative evaluation of contemporary science and technology.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction: Realization and Nonlocality in Science and Technology
Chapter 2 Reproduction and Nonlocality in Experimental Science
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Realization and Description of Reproducible Experiments
2.3 Reproduction in Experimental Practice
2.4 Normativity, Stability, and Nonlocality
2.5 The Experimenters' Regress
2.6 Data versus Phenomena?
2.7 Experimental Science and Its Social Legitimation
Chapter 3 Heuristics, Correspondence, and Nonlocality in Theoretical Science
3.1 Introduction: Intertheoretical Correspondence as a Nonlocal Pattern
3.2 The Generalized Correspondence Principle
3.3 The Correspondence Principle and the Rise of Quantum Mechanics, 1913–1925
3.4 Correspondence in Modern Quantum Theory
3.5 Evaluation of the Generalized Correspondence Principle
3.6 Correspondence and Heuristics
3.7 Philosophical Conclusions
Chapter 4 Science, Realization, and Reality
4.1 Change and Work
4.2 Meeting the Kuhnian Challenge: A Referentially Realist Epistemology for Experimental Science
4.3 Meeting the Bachelardian Challenge: An Ontology of Persistently Real Potentialities and Historically Contingent Realizations
4.4 Realizing Types and Ranges of Reproducibility
4.5 The Abstraction (plus Interpretation and Realization) of Nonlocals
4.6 Between Transcendental Realism and Constructivism
4.7 Experimentation versus Observation?
Chapter 5 Normative Reflexions on Constructivist Approaches to Science and Technology
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Normativity in Constructivism
5.3 Reflexivity in Constructivism
5.4 Locality
5.5 Ontological, Epistemological, and Methodological Relativism
5.6 The Actor-Network Theory
5.7 Conclusion: Analytical, Critical, and Constructive Reflexivity
Chapter 6 Experiment, Technology, and the Intrinsic Connection between Knowledge and Power
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Production and Maintenance of Closed Systems
6.3 The Relation between Experimentation and Technological Production
6.4 The Effects of "Effect Thinking"
6.5 The Intrinsic Connection between Knowledge and Power
Chapter 7 The Appropriate Realization of Technology: The Case of Agricultural Biotechnology
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Potentialities and Actualities of Agricultural Biotechnology and Its Ethics
7.3 Realizing Technology
7.4 Realizing Appropriate Technology
7.5 Realizing Appropriate Agricultural Biotechnology
7.6 Conclusion
Chapter 8 Philosophy: In and about the World
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Philosophy as Theoretical
8.3 Philosoophy as Normative
8.4 Philosophy as Reflexive
Notes
References
Index
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