Download or read book How Scientific Instruments Speak written by Bas de Boer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science is highly dependent on technologies to observe scientific objects. For example, astronomers need telescopes to observe planetary movements, and cognitive neuroscience depends on brain imaging technologies to investigate human cognition. But how do such technologies shape scientific practice, and how do new scientific objects come into being when new technologies are used in science? In How Scientific Instruments Speak, Bas de Boer develops a philosophical account of how technologies shape the reality that scientists study, arguing that we should understand scientific instruments as mediating technologies. Rather than mute tools serving pre-existing human goals, scientific instruments play an active role in shaping scientific work. De Boer uses this account to discuss how brain imaging and stimulation technologies mediate the way in which cognitive neuroscientists investigate human cognitive functions. The development of cognitive neuroscience runs parallel with the development of advanced brain imaging technologies, drawing a lot of public attention—sometimes called “neurohype”—because of its alleged capacity to demystify the human mind. By analyzing how the objects that cognitive neuroscientists study are mediated by brain imaging technologies, de Boer explicates the processes by which human cognition is investigated.
Download or read book How Scientific Instruments Speak written by Sebastiaan Oege Mathijs de Boer and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Postphenomenology written by Don Ihde and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postphenomenology is a fascinating investigation of the relationships between global culture and technology. The impressive range of subjects to which Don Ihde applies his skill as a phenomenologist is unified by what he describes as "a concern which arises with respect to one of the now major trends of Euro-American philosophy--its textism." He adds, "I show my worries to be less about the loss of subjects or authors, than I do about [there] not being bodies or perceivers."
Download or read book Industrial and Scientific Instruments written by United States. Bureau of International Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Scientific Instruments and Their Makers written by de Clercq and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discursive Democracy written by John S. Dryzek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discursive Democracy examines how the political process can be made more vital and meaningful.
Download or read book Journal of the Optical Society of America and Review of Scientific Instruments written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thing Knowledge written by Davis Baird and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-02-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book James Bowman Lindsay and Other Pioneers of Invention written by Alexander Hastir Millar and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Language written by Edward Sapir and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-09-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert, accessible study, this book asks and answers fundamental questions about how language works, its regional variations, and its cultural and historical roles. The author relates linguistic issues to a broad spectrum of other areas, including the part played by language in the nature of thought and in artistic expression. No finer introduction to the subject exists, and this work's direct style and thought-provoking topics extend its appeal beyond the classroom.
Download or read book How Machines Came to Speak written by Jennifer Petersen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How Machines Came to Speak Jennifer Petersen constructs a genealogy of how legal conceptions of “speech” have transformed over the last century in response to new media technologies. Drawing on media and legal history, Petersen shows that the legal category of speech has varied considerably, evolving from a narrow category of oratory and print publication to a broad, abstract conception encompassing expressive nonverbal actions, algorithms, and data. She examines a series of pivotal US court cases in which new media technologies—such as phonographs, radio, film, and computer code—were integral to this shift. In judicial decisions ranging from the determination that silent films were not a form of speech to the expansion of speech rights to include algorithmic outputs, courts understood speech as mediated through technology. Speech thus became disarticulated from individual speakers. By outlining how legal definitions of speech are indelibly dependent on technology, Petersen demonstrates that future innovations such as artificial intelligence will continue to restructure speech law in ways that threaten to protect corporate and institutional forms of speech over the rights and interests of citizens.
Download or read book Tariff Act of 1929 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 1666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Postphenomenology and Imaging written by Samantha J. Fried and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should we understand the experience of encountering and interpreting images? What are their roles in science and medicine? How do they shape everyday life? Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to investigate these questions. The contributors make use of the “postphenomenological” philosophical perspective, applying its distinctive ideas to the study of how images are experienced. These essays offer both philosophical analysis of our conception of images and empirical studies of imaging practice. Edited by Samantha J. Fried and Robert Rosenberger, this collection includes an extensive “primer” chapter introducing and expanding the postphenomenological account of imaging, as well as a set of short pieces by “critical respondents”: prominent scholars who may not self-identify as doing postphenomenology but whose adjacent work is illuminating.
Download or read book Instrumental in War written by Steven Walton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research and instrumentation in warfare since 1500 demonstrates the rise of the scientific military, the complicated interaction with military institutions, and details of how scientists and engineers developed artillery and explosives, surveying and geophysics, pilot testing and siegework, and the role of national and university laboratories.
Download or read book Knowledge written by Nico Stehr and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing investment in scientific knowledge, in its production, distribution and reproduction, is acquiring greater social significance. Everything that is regarded as knowledge in society has become a legitimate subject matter for academic investigations from various disciplines and for practitioners.
Download or read book Postphenomenology and Architecture written by Lars Botin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture and urban design are typically considered as a result of artistic creativity performed by gifted individuals. Postphenomenology and Architecture: Human Technology Relations in the Built Environment analyzes buildings and cities instead as technologies. Informed by a postphenomenological perspective, this book argues that buildings and the furniture of cities—like bike lanes, benches, and bus stops—are inscribed in a conceptual framework of multistability, which is to say that they fulfill different purposes over time. Yet, there are qualities in the built environment that are long lasting and immutable and that transcend temporal functionality and ephemeral efficiency. The contributors show how different perceptions, practices, and interpretations are tangible and visible as we engage with these technologies. In addition, several of the chapters critically assess the influence of Martin Heidegger in modern philosophy of architecture. This book reads Heidegger from the perspective of architecture and urban design as technology, shedding light on what it means to build and dwell.
