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Heraclitus Redux: Technological Infrastructures And Scientific Change

By Joseph C. Pitt

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Year
2020
ISBN
1786612356, 9781786612359, 1786612364, 9781786612366
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3509535 bytes)
Series
Collective Studies In Knowledge And Society
Pages
x+117\128
Time added
2020-01-26 19:52:04
Science: Methodology: PhilosophyScience: Technological InnovationsScience: Technological Innovations: PhilosophyTechnological innovations

Description

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. "Pitt’s book is a powerful wake-up call for philosophers of science and for philosophers in general: neither new ideas or new evidence are the driving forces that keep science (and society) in constant flux, but changing technological infrastructures; he argues persuasively that this notion deserves a central place in any philosophical analysis of the ever changing modern human condition." - Peter Kroes, Professor emertitus, Delft University of Technology.

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