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About this book
In scholarly debates, as well as in everyday parlance, we tend to pull science and technology apart: science gives us theory, and technology applies it. In practice, however, science and technologies are highly intertwined. In Techno-Scientific Practices: An Informational Approach, Federica Russo looks at the practice of science and elucidates the role of technologies and instruments in the process of knowledge production. In this exercise, it becomes evident that technologies cannot be analyzed on their own, but always in relation to epistemic agents. Thus, Techno-Scientific Practices emphasizes the importance of analyzing the process of knowledge production in techno-scientific contexts, in which there is a triad of relations to look at: us, the instruments, and the world. The book thus builds bridges between the philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies in an unprecedent way.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Whence Philosophy of Techno-Science?
- Part I: TOWARD A PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNO-SCIENCE
- Chapter 2: Philosophy of Science or Philosophy of Technology
- Chapter 3: Techno-Scientific Practices: Theoretical Framework and Selected Episodes
- Chapter 4: Two Tools from the Philosophy of Information
- Part II: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF TECHNO-SCIENTIFIC PRACTICES
- Chapter 5: Modeling and Validation in Techno-Scientific Practices
- Chapter 6: The Informational Content of Evidence
- Chapter 7: Establishing the Truth of Techno-Scientific Claims
- Chapter 8: Techno-Scientific Knowledge and the Role of Instruments
- Chapter 9: Poiêsis: How Human and Artificial Epistemic Agents Co-produce Knowledge
- Part III: THE ONTOEPISTEMOLOGY OF TECHNO-SCIENTIFIC PRACTICES
- Chapter 10: Deriving Ontology from Epistemology
- Chapter 11: The Prospects of Process-Based Ontologies
- Chapter 12: Causality as Information Transmission
- Chapter 13: Wither Philosophy of Techno-Science?
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author