Description
Book SynopsisIn scholarly debates, as well as in everyday parlance, we tend to pull science and technology apart: science gives us theory, and technology applies it. In practice, however, science and technologies are highly intertwined. This book sets out to look at the practice of science, and to elucidate the role of technologies and of instruments in the process of knowledge production. In this exercise, it becomes evident that technologies cannot be analyzed on their own, but always in relation to us epistemic agents. Thus, the book pleads for the importance to look at the process of knowledge production in techno-scientific practices, in which there is a triad of relations to look at: us – the instruments – and the world. The book thus builds bridges between Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology, and Science and Technology Studies in an unprecedent way.
Table of ContentsList of abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Whence Philosophy of Techno-Science?
PART 1: TOWARDS A PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNO-SCIENCE22
2. Philosophy of Science or Philosophy of Technology
3. Techno-scientific practices: theoretical framework and selected episodes
4. Two tools from the Philosophy of Information
PART 2: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF TECHNO-SCIENTIFIC PRACTICES
5. Modeling and validation in techno-scientific practices
6. The informational content of evidence
7. Establishing the truth of techno-scientific claims
8. Techno-scientific knowledge and the role of instruments
9. Poiêsis: how human and artificial epistemic agents co-produce knowledge
PART 3: THE ONTOEPISTEMOLOGY OF TECHNO-SCIENTIFIC PRACTICES
10. Deriving ontology from epistemology
11. The prospects of process-based ontologies
12. Causality as information transmission
13. Wither Philosophy of Techno-Science?
Bibliography
Index
About the author
