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Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments

by Davis Baird

  • Hardback
  • 296 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • 15.4 x 23.5 x 2.8 cm

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For thinkers interested in science and philosophy

Challenges traditional views on knowledge and science

You will gain a new perspective on knowledge itself

This book explores how scientific instruments convey knowledge.
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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.

  • Title

    Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments

  • Author

    Davis Baird

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    University of California Press

  • Published

    February 2004

  • Weight

    563g

  • Page Count

    296

  • Dimensions

    15.4 x 23.5 x 2.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780520232495

  • ISBN-10

    0520232496

  • Eden Code

    4833365