How Scientific Instruments Speak
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How Scientific Instruments Speak
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Author : Bas de Boer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2021-01-14
How Scientific Instruments Speak written by Bas de Boer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-14 with Philosophy categories.
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.
How Scientific Instruments Speak
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Author : Bas de Boer
language : en
Publisher: Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
Release Date : 2021-01-14
How Scientific Instruments Speak written by Bas de Boer and has been published by Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-14 with Philosophy categories.
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.
How Scientific Instruments Speak
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Author : Sebastiaan Oege Mathijs de Boer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
How Scientific Instruments Speak written by Sebastiaan Oege Mathijs de Boer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Journal Of The Royal Society Of Arts
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
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Journal Of The Royal Society Of Arts
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Author : Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
Journal Of The Royal Society Of Arts written by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Arts categories.
Instruments Of Knowledge
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Author : Jean-François Gauvin
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-06-19
Instruments Of Knowledge written by Jean-François Gauvin and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-19 with Science categories.
In a bid to claim ‘scientific objects’ as requiring a significant amount of conceptual labor, this book looks sequentially at instruments, habits, and museums. The goal is to uncover how, together, these material and immaterial activities, rules, and commitments form one meaningful and credible blueprint revealing the building blocks of knowledge production. They serve to conceptualize and examine the entire life of an instrument: from its ideation and craft to its use, reuse, circulation, recycling, and (if not obliterated) its final entry into a museum. It is such an epistemological triptych that guides this investigation.
The Hubble Wars
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Author : Eric Chaisson
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1998
The Hubble Wars written by Eric Chaisson and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Nature categories.
Eric Chaisson, the senior scientist on the HST project, tells the inside story of the much heralded mission to fix the telescope. Drawing on his journals, Chaisson recreates the day-to-day struggles of those involved in the project.
Telegraphic Journal And Monthly Illustrated Review Of Electrical Science
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Telegraphic Journal And Monthly Illustrated Review Of Electrical Science written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Electrical engineering categories.
Journal Of The Society Of Arts
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
Journal Of The Society Of Arts written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Art categories.
Mountains Figured And Disfigured In The English Speaking World
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Author : Françoise Besson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-06-01
Mountains Figured And Disfigured In The English Speaking World written by Françoise Besson and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-01 with Art categories.
The essays in this book, written by poets, novelists, mountain-climbers and academics from all over the world, evoke the representation of mountains in the English-speaking world as artists, writers, philosophers or mountain-climbers have represented them from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the Alps to the Pyrenees, from Mount Fuji to Mount Shasta, from the Himalayas to the Scottish Highlands, from Ikere in Nigeria to Devil's Tower in the United States, from Uluru in Australia to the most northern mountain of the Arctic, the shapes of the world speak the same language and tell the world its own story. This interdisciplinary book, weaving together mountaineering, literature, philosophy, painting, cinema, ecology, history, palaeontology, geography, geopolitics, toponymy, law, religion and myth, invites people to an innovative reading of mountains: it reveals the close relationship existing between the shapes of the world and all forms of writing and, at the same time, it shows how the representations of the imagination may be instrumental in protecting the natural world. The story told by the landscape inscribes a broken line in the shapes of the world, tearing the landscape like a fragile page whenever historical and political events (wars, mining or deforestation) leave scars in the landscape; but writers' and artists' representations of mountains constitute a path to awareness as they are not only a painting of beauty, but an image of our link to nature and a warning as well. For centuries the image of the mountain has conveyed a symbolism telling the story of human thought, and this book shows to what extent literature and art play an essential part in our awareness of nature.