Davis Baird 
Thing Knowledge [EPUB ebook] 
A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments

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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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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

Sobre o autor

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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Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 296 ● ISBN 9780520928206 ● Tamanho do arquivo 2.8 MB ● Editora University of California Press ● Publicado 2004 ● Edição 1 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 6513040 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
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