Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments

✍ Scribed by Davis Baird

Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 296
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
List of Illustrations and Tables (page xi)
Preface (page xv)
1. INSTRUMENT EPISTEMOLOGY (page 1)
2. MODELS: REPRESENTING THINGS (page 21)
3. WORKING KNOWLEDGE (page 41)
4. ENCAPSULATING KNOWLEDGE (page 67)
5. THE INSTRUMENTATION REVOLUTION (page 89)
6. THING KNOWLEDGE (page 113)
7. THE THING-Y-NESS OF THINGS (page 145)
8. BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE (page 170)
9. INSTRUMENTAL OBJECTIVITY (page 189)
10. THE GIFT (page 211)
References (page 239)
Index (page 261)

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