Heraclitus Redux: Technological Infrastructures and Scientific Change

Joseph C. Pitt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

128 Seiten

2019
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78661-235-9 (ISBN)

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This book aims to spell out the consequences of taking the technologies behind the doing of science seriously.

Scientific change is often a function of technological innovation – new instruments show us new things we could not see before and we then need new theories to explain them. One of the results of this process is that what counts as scientific evidence changes, and how we do our science changes. Hitherto the technologies which make contemporary science possible have been ignored. This book aims to correct that omission and to spell out the consequences of taking the technologies behind the doing of science seriously.

Joseph C. Pitt is Professor of Philosophy and of Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech, where he has taught since 1971. He is the author of four books, edited or co-edited twelve additional volumes and published over 100 articles and book reviews. He and his wife, Donna, live on their Virginia farm, Calyddon, where they raise horses and Irish Wolfhounds.

1. Introduction / 2. Galileo and the Telescope / 3. The Technological Infrastructure of Science / 4. Scientific Observation / 5. "Seeing" at the nano-level / 6. When Technological Infrastructures fail / 7. Scientific Progress? / 8. Technological Progress? / 9. Scientific Change / 10. Technological Development and the Process of Science / 11. A Heraclitian Philosophy of Technology

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2019
Reihe/Serie	Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 234 mm
Gewicht	349 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
ISBN-10	1-78661-235-6 / 1786612356
ISBN-13	978-1-78661-235-9 / 9781786612359
Zustand	Neuware