Thing knowledge : a philosophy of scientific instruments
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Thing knowledge : a philosophy of scientific instruments
University of California Press, c2004
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-259) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 numerous intriguing examples, Davis Baird gives us the tools to "read" the material products of science and technology and to understand their place in culture. Making a provocative and original challenge to our conception of knowledge itself, "Thing Knowledge" demands that we take a new look at theories of science and technology, knowledge, progress, and change. Baird considers a wide range of instruments, including Faraday's first electric motor, eighteenth-century mechanical models of the solar system, the cyclotron, various instruments developed by analytical chemists between 1930 and 1960, spectrometers, and more.
目次
List of Illustrations and Tables Preface 1. Instrument Epistemology 2. Models: Representing Things 3. Working Knowledge 4. Encapsulating Knowledge 5. The Instrumentation Revolution 6. Thing Knowledge 7. The Thing-y-ness of Things 8. Between Technology and Science 9. Instrumental Objectivity 10. The Gift References Index
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