Download or read book Ritchie s Illustrated Catalogue of Philosophical Instruments and School Apparatus written by Edward S. RITCHIE and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philosophical Instruments written by Daniel Rothbart and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Philosophical Apparatus written by BOSTON, Massachusetts. School Committee. Committee on Text Books and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Directions for using Philosophical Apparatus in Private Research and Public Exhibitions written by Edward Marmaduke CLARKE and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philosophical Instruments written by Daniel Rothbart and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Philosophical Devices written by David Papineau and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Download or read book What Is an Apparatus and Other Essays written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on contemporariness, or the singular relation one may have to one's own time. "Apparatus" (dispositif in French) is at once a most ubiquitous and nebulous concept in Foucault's later thought. In a text bearing the same name ("What is a dispositif?") Deleuze managed to contribute its mystification, but Agamben's leading essay illuminates the notion: "I will call an apparatus," he writes, "literally anything that has in some way the capacity to capture, orient, determine, intercept, model, control, or secure the gestures, behaviors, opinions, or discourses of living beings." Seen from this perspective, Agamben's work, like Foucault's, may be described as the identification and investigation of apparatuses, together with incessant attempts to find new ways to dismantle them. Though philosophy contains the notion of philos, or friend, in its very name, philosophers tend to be very skeptical about friendship. In his second essay, Agamben tries to dispel this skepticism by showing that at the heart of friendship and philosophy, but also at the core of politics, lies the same experience: the shared sensation of being. Guided by the question, "What does it mean to be contemporary?" Agamben begins the third essay with a reading of Nietzsche's philosophy and Mandelstam's poetry, proceeding from these to an exploration of such diverse fields as fashion, neurophysiology, messianism and astrophysics.
Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of Optical Mathematical Philosophical and Chemical Instruments constructed and sold by Watkins and Hill etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Price Catalogue and Description of Philosophical Apparatus written by Chamberlain, N.B., firm, dealer in physical apparatus, Boston and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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 Ritchie s Illustrated Catalogue of Philosophical Instruments and School Apparatus written by Edward S. RITCHIE and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Philosophical Apparatus and Mathematical Instruments written by Mc Allister & Brother and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journal of the American Chemical Society written by American Chemical Society and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the Society are included in v. 1-59, 1879-1937.
