Author: BOSTON, Massachusetts. School Committee. Committee on Text BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Philosophical Apparatus
Author: BOSTON, Massachusetts. School Committee. Committee on Text BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Descriptive and General Catalogue of Philosophical Apparatus and Chemical Preparations Manufactured and Sold by Bland & Long, Opticians, Philosophical, Photographical & Chemical Instrument Makers and Operative Chemists ...
Author: Bland & LongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Descriptive and General Catalogue of Philosophical Apparatus ... sold by Bland and Long, etc
Author: Philosophical Instruments
Author: Daniel RothbartPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252056248
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The surprising roles of instruments and experimentation in acquiring knowledge 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 channeled from design plans to models and from model into the use of the devices.
Ritchie's Illustrated Catalogue of Philosophical Instruments and School Apparatus
Author: Edward S. RITCHIEPhilosophical Instruments
Author: Daniel RothbartPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252031369
Category : Experimental design
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The surprising roles of instruments and experimentation in acquiring knowledge 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 channeled from design plans to models and from model into the use of the devices.
Directions for using Philosophical Apparatus in Private Research and Public Exhibitions
Author: Edward Marmaduke CLARKEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scientific apparatus and instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Philosophical Devices
Author: David PapineauPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191656259
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like 'denumerability', 'modal scope distinction', 'Bayesian conditionalization', and 'logical completeness' are usually only elucidated deep within difficult specialist texts. By offering simple explanations that by-pass much irrelevant and boring detail, Philosophical Devices is able to cover a wealth of material that is normally only available to specialists. The book contains four sections, each of three chapters. The first section is about sets and numbers, starting with the membership relation and ending with the generalized continuum hypothesis. The second is about analyticity, a prioricity, and necessity. The third is about probability, outlining the difference between objective and subjective probability and exploring aspects of conditionalization and correlation. The fourth deals with metalogic, focusing on the contrast between syntax and semantics, and finishing with a sketch of Gödel's theorem. Philosophical Devices will be useful for university students who have got past the foothills of philosophy and are starting to read more widely, but it does not assume any prior expertise. All the issues discussed are intrinsically interesting, and often downright fascinating. It can be read with pleasure and profit by anybody who is curious about the technical infrastructure of contemporary philosophy.
Pike's Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments, Manufactured, Imported, and Sold by the Author
Author: Benjamin PikePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
"What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays
Author: Giorgio AgambenPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804762309
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
What is an apparatus? was originally published in Italian in 2006 under the title: Che cos'è un dispositivo?; The friend was originally published in Italian in 2007 under the title: L'amico; and, What is the contemporary? was originally published in Italian in 2008 under the title: Che cos'è il contemporaneo