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Thing knowledge : a philosophy of scientific instruments / / Davis Baird



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Autore: Baird Davis Visualizza persona
Titolo: Thing knowledge : a philosophy of scientific instruments / / Davis Baird Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2004
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
Disciplina: 502/.8/4
Soggetto topico: Scientific apparatus and instruments
Science - Philosophy
Science - Technological innovations
Classificazione: TB 2280
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-259) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Instrument epistemology -- Models : representing things -- Working knowledge -- Encapsulating knowledge -- Instrumentation revolution -- Thing knowledge -- The thing-y-ness of things -- Between technology and science -- Instrumental objectivity -- The gift.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Thing knowledge  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786612356681
0-520-92820-2
1-282-35668-2
1-59734-950-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820694903321
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