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 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 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.
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 A catalogue of optical mathematical and philosophical instruments made and sold by W and S Jones no 30 Lower Holborn London written by W. and S. Jones (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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: What is an apparatus? was originally published in Italian in 2006 under the title: Che cos'è un dispositivo?; The friend was originally published in Italian in 2007 under the title: L'amico; and, What is the contemporary? was originally published in Italian in 2008 under the title: Che cos'è il contemporaneo
Download or read book Natural Philosophy and Key to Philosophical Charts written by Frank Grant Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A School Compendium of Natural and Experimental Philosophy written by Richard Green Parker and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Historical Geographical Commercial and Philosophical View of the American United States and of the European Settlements in America and the West Indies written by William Winterbotham and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Hand books of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy Mechanics Hydrostatics hydraulics pneumatics and sound Optics v 2 Heat Magnetism common electricity and voltaic electricity v 3 Meteorology Astronomy written by Dionysius Lardner and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Natural Philosophy for Beginners Designed for Common Schools and Families written by Mrs. Lincoln Phelps and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A sketch of the history of Yale College in Connecticut Prepared by Professor Kingsley and first published in the American Quarterly Register written by James Luce KINGSLEY and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philosophy in Ovid Ovid as Philosopher written by Gareth Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume contains sixteen essays on various aspects of Ovid's engagement with philosophical trends and topics. Ovid has long been celebrated for the versatility of his poetic imagination, the diversity of his generic experimentation throughout his long career, and his intimate engagement with the Greco-Roman literary tradition that precedes him; but what of his engagement with the philosophical tradition? Ovid's close familiarity with philosophical ideas and with specific philosophical texts has long been recognized, perhaps most prominently in the Pythagorean, Platonic, Empedoclean, and Lucretian shades that color his Metamorphoses. This philosophical component, however, has often been perceived as a feature subordinate to Ovid's larger literary agenda; and because of the controlling influence conceded to that literary impulse, readings of the philosophical dimension have often focused on the perceived distortion, ironizing, or parodying of philosophical sources and ideas. This book counters this tendency by (i) considering Ovid's seriousness of engagement with, and his possible critique of, the philosophical writings that inform his works; (ii) questioning the feasibility of separating out the categories of the "philosophical" and the "literary" in the first place; (iii) exploring the ways in which Ovid may offer unusual, controversial, or provocative reactions to received philosophical ideas; and (iv) investigating the case to be made for viewing the Ovidian corpus not just as a body of writings that are often philosophically inflected, but also as texts that may themselves be read as philosophically adventurous and experimental"--
Download or read book Johnson s Natural Philosophy and Key to Philosophical Charts written by Frank Grant Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
