Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments - Couverture rigide

Baird, Davis

 
9780520232495: Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0520232496 ISBN 13 : 9780520232495
Editeur : University of California Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Davis Baird, Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina, is author of Inductive Logic: Inferring the Unknown (1999) and coeditor of Heinrich Hertz: Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher (1997).

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520232496
ISBN 13 
9780520232495
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
296
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Personne responsable
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