Techno-Scientific Practices
An Informational Approach
Abstract
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.
Schlagworte
Ontoepistemology Perspectivism Techno-science Science and Technology Science in Practice Constructivism science scientific instruments scientific practice philosophy of information philosophy of science philosophy of technology knowledge instruments of science evidence causality- i–xxiv Preface i–xxiv
- 275–308 Bibliography 275–308
- 309–314 Index 309–314
- 315–316 About the Author 315–316