Philosophical instruments : minds and tools at work /
"In Philosophical Instruments Daniel Rothbart argues that our tools are not just neutral intermediaries between humans and the natural world, but are devices that demand new ideas about reality. Just as a hunter's new spear can change their knowledge of the environment, so can the developm...
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
©2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Rom Harre
- Preface
- Science, technology, and philosophy
- Analogies of design
- Testing design plans
- Icons of design and images of art
- Microscopes, machines, and matter
- Atoms : easier than ever before
- Specimens as machines
- Afterword.
