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Techno-Scientific Practices

An Informational Approach
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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. 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.
Federica Russo is a philosopher of science and technology based at the University of Amsterdam. Among her publications: Causality: Philosophical Theory Meets Scientific Practice, Causality in the Sciences, and Causality and Causal Modelling in the Social Sciences. She is co-editor in chief (with Phyllis Illari) of the European Journal for Philosophy of Science and Executive Editor of Philosophy and Technology. For more information please visit russofederica.wordpress.com.
List 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. Poiesis: 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
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