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Science is highly dependent on the technologies needed to observe scientific objects. In How Scientific Instruments Speak, Bas de Boer develops a philosophical account of instruments in scientific practice, focusing on the cognitive neurosciences. He argues for an understanding of scientific instruments as mediating technology.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Technological Mediations and (Neuro-)Scientific Practice
Part 1: Towards a Theory of Technological Mediations in Scientific Practice
Chapter 1: Scientific Instruments as Mediating Technologies and the Collectivity of Scientific Practice
Chapter 2: "Technology" and "Human-Technology Relations"
Chapter 3: Science and the Theoretical Disclosure of Nature
Chapter 4: To the Scientific Objects Themselves: Gaston Bachelard's Phenomenotechnique
Chapter 5: Bruno Latour and the Difference Between Technical and Technological Mediations
Part 2: A Postphenomenological Ethnomethodology of Neuroscientific Practice
Chapter 6: Postphenomenology as Ethnomethodology: Studying How Reality is Accomplished Through the Appropriation of Technological Mediations
Chapter 7: Constituting "Visual Attention" in the Cognitive Neurosciences
Chapter 8: "Braining" Neuropsychiatric Experiments
Conclusion: A Philosophy of Technological Mediation as a Philosophy of Scientific Practice
About the author
Bas works an assistant professor in philosophy of technology at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. His research focuses on how technologies shape our understanding and experience of our selves and the world we live in, with a specific focus on technologies in healthcare. His further research interests are in philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, and (post)phenomenology of technology.
