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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Ingemar Nordin is professor of philosophy at Linköping University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ingemar Nordin, Nordin Ingemar
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781498541091
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4109-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology; Postphenomenology and the Phil; Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge