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Rothbart, Daniel

 
9780252031366: Philosophical Instruments: Minds and Tools at Work
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ISBN 10: 0252031369 ISBN 13: 9780252031366
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2007

Sinopsis

The surprising roles of instruments and experimentation in acquiring knowledge

In Philosophical Instruments Daniel Rothbart argues that our tools are not just neutral intermediaries between humans and the natural world, but are devices that demand new ideas about reality. Just as a hunter's new spear can change their knowledge of the environment, so can the development of modern scientific equipment alter our view of the world.

Working at the intersections of science, technology, and philosophy, Rothbart examines the revolution in knowledge brought on by recent advances in scientific instruments. Full of examples from historical and contemporary science, including electron scanning microscopes, sixteenth-century philosophical instruments, and diffraction devices used by biochemical researchers, Rothbart explores the ways in which instrumentation advances a philosophical stance about an instrument's power, an experimenter's skills, and a specimen's properties. Through a close reading of engineering of instruments, he introduces a philosophy from (rather than of) design, contending that philosophical ideas are channeled from design plans to models and from model into the use of the devices.

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Daniel Rothbart is a professor of philosophy at George Mason University. He is the author of Explaining the Growth of Scientific Knowledge: Metaphors, Models, and Meanings. His edited volumes include Science, Reason and Reality and Modeling: Gateway to the Unknown by Rom Harré.

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University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252031369
ISBN 13 
9780252031366
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
160
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