Using Knowledge - On the Rationality of Science, Technology, and Medicine

In this book, Ingemar Nordin analyzes how not only scientific but also non-scientific knowledge is to be used in practice when establishing a rational technological and medical development.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter I: Science and Technology
Chapter II: Functionality and Certainty
Chapter III: Philosophical Explorations
Chapter IV: Usefulness
Chapter V: Models of Technology
Chapter VI: Technological Paradigms
Chapter VII: The Question of Rationality
Chapter VIII: An Illustration: Medicine
Chapter IX: The Tools of Science
Bibliography

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Ingemar Nordin is professor of philosophy at Linköping University.

Zusammenfassung

In this book, Ingemar Nordin analyzes how not only scientific but also non-scientific knowledge is to be used in practice when establishing a rational technological and medical development.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ingemar Nordin, Nordin Ingemar
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781498541091
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4109-1
• Seiten: 208
• Serien: Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology; Postphenomenology and the Phil; Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge