How Scientific Instruments Speak

Author : Bas de Boer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793627858

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How Scientific Instruments Speak by Bas de Boer Pdf

Science is highly dependent on technologies to observe scientific objects. For example, astronomers need telescopes to observe planetary movements, and cognitive neuroscience depends on brain imaging technologies to investigate human cognition. But how do such technologies shape scientific practice, and how do new scientific objects come into being when new technologies are used in science? In How Scientific Instruments Speak, Bas de Boer develops a philosophical account of how technologies shape the reality that scientists study, arguing that we should understand scientific instruments as mediating technologies. Rather than mute tools serving pre-existing human goals, scientific instruments play an active role in shaping scientific work. De Boer uses this account to discuss how brain imaging and stimulation technologies mediate the way in which cognitive neuroscientists investigate human cognitive functions. The development of cognitive neuroscience runs parallel with the development of advanced brain imaging technologies, drawing a lot of public attention—sometimes called “neurohype”—because of its alleged capacity to demystify the human mind. By analyzing how the objects that cognitive neuroscientists study are mediated by brain imaging technologies, de Boer explicates the processes by which human cognition is investigated.

Author : de Clercq
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004628724

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Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments and Their Makers by de Clercq Pdf

Author : Don Ihde
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810112759

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Postphenomenology by Don Ihde Pdf

Postphenomenology is a fascinating investigation of the relationships between global culture and technology. The impressive range of subjects to which Don Ihde applies his skill as a phenomenologist is unified by what he describes as "a concern which arises with respect to one of the now major trends of Euro-American philosophy--its textism." He adds, "I show my worries to be less about the loss of subjects or authors, than I do about [there] not being bodies or perceivers."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004499676

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Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education by Anonim Pdf

When science’s “black boxes” are pried open, its workings become accessible. Like time-travellers into history but grounded in today’s cultures, learners interact directly with authentic instruments and replicas. Chapters describe educational experiences sparked through collaborations interrelating museum, school and university.

Author : Davis Baird
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520928206

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Thing Knowledge by Davis Baird Pdf

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.

Author : United States. Bureau of International Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Instrument industry
ISBN : UCSD:31822027499268

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Industrial and Scientific Instruments by United States. Bureau of International Commerce Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004264403

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Scientific Instruments on Display by Anonim Pdf

This study examines the display of scientific instruments in venues beyond the laboratory or the classroom, in museums, fairs, universal exhibitions, theatres, movies, book frontispieces, and patent offices.

Author : Jean-François Gauvin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004504615

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Instruments of Knowledge by Jean-François Gauvin Pdf

In a bid to claim ‘scientific objects’ as requiring a significant amount of conceptual labor, this book looks sequentially at instruments, habits, and museums. The goal is to uncover how, together, these material and immaterial activities, rules, and commitments form one meaningful and credible blueprint revealing the building blocks of knowledge production. They serve to conceptualize and examine the entire life of an instrument: from its ideation and craft to its use, reuse, circulation, recycling, and (if not obliterated) its final entry into a museum. It is such an epistemological triptych that guides this investigation.

Author : Christopher Lawrence,Steven Shapin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226470148

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Science Incarnate by Christopher Lawrence,Steven Shapin Pdf

This book addresses issues of crucial importance to present-day discussions about the nature of knowledge and how it is produced. 54 halftones. Line art.

Author : C.C. Gaither,Alma E Cavazos-Gaither
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781420033557

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Scientifically Speaking by C.C. Gaither,Alma E Cavazos-Gaither Pdf

In these days of ever-increasing specialization, it is important to gain a broad appreciation of science. Entertaining and informative, Scientifically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations, Second Edition contains the words and wisdom of several hundred scientists, writers, philosophers, poets, and academics. The largest compilation of published science quotations available, the book presents quotations that give depth and breadth to science, and provides the visions and styles of scientists past and present. The bibliography is useful if you want more details about the quotations listed. The extensive author and subject indexes provide the perfect tool for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure. This book can be read for entertainment or used as a handy reference.

Author : Jennifer Petersen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478021827

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How Machines Came to Speak by Jennifer Petersen Pdf

In How Machines Came to Speak Jennifer Petersen constructs a genealogy of how legal conceptions of “speech” have transformed over the last century in response to new media technologies. Drawing on media and legal history, Petersen shows that the legal category of speech has varied considerably, evolving from a narrow category of oratory and print publication to a broad, abstract conception encompassing expressive nonverbal actions, algorithms, and data. She examines a series of pivotal US court cases in which new media technologies—such as phonographs, radio, film, and computer code—were integral to this shift. In judicial decisions ranging from the determination that silent films were not a form of speech to the expansion of speech rights to include algorithmic outputs, courts understood speech as mediated through technology. Speech thus became disarticulated from individual speakers. By outlining how legal definitions of speech are indelibly dependent on technology, Petersen demonstrates that future innovations such as artificial intelligence will continue to restructure speech law in ways that threaten to protect corporate and institutional forms of speech over the rights and interests of citizens.

Author : Anton Nijholt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789814560962

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Playful User Interfaces by Anton Nijholt Pdf

The book is about user interfaces to applications that have been designed for social and physical interaction. The interfaces are ‘playful’, that is, users feel challenged to engage in social and physical interaction because that will be fun. The topics that will be present in this book are interactive playgrounds, urban games using mobiles, sensor-equipped environments for playing, child-computer interaction, tangible game interfaces, interactive tabletop technology and applications, full-body interaction, exertion games, persuasion, engagement, evaluation and user experience. Readers of the book will not only get a survey of state-of-the-art research in these areas, but the chapters in this book will also provide a vision of the future where playful interfaces will be ubiquitous, that is, present and integrated in home, office, recreational, sports and urban environments, emphasizing that in the future in these environments game elements will be integrated and welcomed.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1666 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Tariff
ISBN : MINN:31951D03524527W

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Tariff Act of 1929 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Tariff
ISBN : UCAL:B5143277

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Schedule 3 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance Pdf

Author : Samantha J. Fried,Robert Rosenberger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793604569

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Postphenomenology and Imaging by Samantha J. Fried,Robert Rosenberger Pdf

How should we understand the experience of encountering and interpreting images? What are their roles in science and medicine? How do they shape everyday life? Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to investigate these questions. The contributors make use of the “postphenomenological” philosophical perspective, applying its distinctive ideas to the study of how images are experienced. These essays offer both philosophical analysis of our conception of images and empirical studies of imaging practice. Edited by Samantha J. Fried and Robert Rosenberger, this collection includes an extensive “primer” chapter introducing and expanding the postphenomenological account of imaging, as well as a set of short pieces by “critical respondents”: prominent scholars who may not self-identify as doing postphenomenology but whose adjacent work is illuminating.