Techno-Scientific Practices: An Informational Approach - Softcover

Russo, Federica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178661233X ISBN 13: 9781786612335

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022

Synopsis

In 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. In Techno-Scientific Practices: An Informational Approach, Federica Russo looks at the practice of science and elucidates the role of technologies and 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 epistemic agents. Thus, Techno-Scientific Practices emphasizes the importance of analyzing the process of knowledge production in techno-scientific contexts, in which there is a triad of relations to look at: us, the instruments, and the world. The book thus builds bridges between the philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies in an unprecedent way.

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About the Author

Federico is Research Associate in the Philosophy Department at the University of Kent. She is author of Causality and Causal Modelling in the Social Sciences: Measuring Variations (Springer 2009) and is features editor of the journal The Reasoner.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178661233X
• ISBN 13: 9781786612335
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336