Instrumental Realism: The Interface Between Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology

ISBN-13: 9780253206268 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 176 str.

Don Ihde

Opis

"Ihde is perhaps uniquely situated to provide authoritative accounts of such diverse philosophical traditions as those involved in current explorations of the technology of scientific instruments.... Ihde's book breaks new ground and... makes an important debate accessible." --Robert AckermannInstrumental Realism has three principal aims: to advocate a "praxis-perception" approach to the philosophy of science; to explore ways in which such an approach offers a mutually illuminating overlap with a philosophy of technology; and to examine comparatively and critically the work of some who advocate an "instrumental realist" approach to the philosophy of science.

In this volume, Don Ihde argues that scientific instrumentation is the link between philosophy of science and philosophy of technology and shows that the interconnections between the two involve scientific instrumentation as an "interface."