Author : Federica Russo
Release : 2022-10-03
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 348/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Techno-Scientific Practices by : Federica Russo
Download or read book Techno-Scientific Practices written by Federica Russo. This book was released on 2022-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.