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9780252031366

Philosophical Instruments

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  • ISBN13:

    9780252031366

  • ISBN10:

    0252031369

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-06-25
  • Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

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Summary

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 channelled from design plans to models and from model into the use of the devices.

Author Biography

Daniel Rothbart is a professor of philosophy at George Mason University.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. ix
Prefacep. xiii
Science, Technology, and Philosophyp. 1
Analogies of Designp. 16
Testing Design Plansp. 26
Icons of Design and Images of Artp. 36
Microscopes, Machines, and Matterp. 58
Atoms: Easier than Ever Beforep. 82
Specimens as Machinesp. 100
Afterwordp. 109
Notesp. 113
Glossaryp. 119
Referencesp. 123
Creditsp. 135
Indexp. 137
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