Thing Knowledge

A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments

By: Davis Baird

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Hardcover | 10 February 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenges this fundamental notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments, can express knowledge. As he considers numerous intriguing examples, Davis Baird gives us the tools to "read" the material products of science and technology and to understand their place in culture. Making a provocative and original challenge to our conception of knowledge itself, Thing Knowledge demands that we take a new look at theories of science and technology, knowledge, progress, and change. Baird considers a wide range of instruments, including Faraday's first electric motor, eighteenth-century mechanical models of the solar system, the cyclotron, various instruments developed by analytical chemists between 1930 and 1960, spectrometers, and more.

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Non-Fiction Science Science in General Scientific Equipment Microscopy Sociology & Anthropology Philosophy Social & Political Philosophy

List of Illustrations and Tables	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Instrument Epistemology	p. 1
Models: Representing Things	p. 21
Working Knowledge	p. 41
Encapsulating Knowledge	p. 67
The Instrumentation Revolution	p. 89
Thing Knowledge	p. 113
The Thing-Y-Ness of Things	p. 145
Between Technology and Science	p. 170
Instrumental Objectivity	p. 189
The Gift	p. 211
References	p. 239
Index	p. 261
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