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Thing knowledge: a philosophy of scientific instruments

Davis Baird c2004 © University of California Press
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  • 9780520232495 (hardcover)
  • 9780520928206 (ebook)
Subject
  • Philosophy
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations and Tables (page xi)
  • Preface (page xv)
  • 1. INSTRUMENT EPISTEMOLOGY (page 1)
  • 2. MODELS: REPRESENTING THINGS (page 21)
  • 3. WORKING KNOWLEDGE (page 41)
  • 4. ENCAPSULATING KNOWLEDGE (page 67)
  • 5. THE INSTRUMENTATION REVOLUTION (page 89)
  • 6. THING KNOWLEDGE (page 113)
  • 7. THE THING-Y-NESS OF THINGS (page 145)
  • 8. BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE (page 170)
  • 9. INSTRUMENTAL OBJECTIVITY (page 189)
  • 10. THE GIFT (page 211)
  • References (page 239)
  • Index (page 261)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
TH 67.3 (2005): 585-586 http://www.jstor.org/stable/24453218
PoS 72.4 (2005): 645-647 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/505474
Isis 96.3 (2005): 466-467 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/498809
TandC 46.1 (2005): 243-245 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40060833
HPLS 27.3/4 (2005): 547-548 http://ww.jstor.org/stable/23333933
BJHS 39.4 (2006): 598-599 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4028523
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