How Scientific Instruments Speak - Postphenomenology and Technological Mediations in Neuroscientific

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.

List of contents

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 de Boer is a philosopher of technoscience working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Twente.

Product details

• Authors: Bas de Boer, Bas de Boer
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781793627841
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-784-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology; Postphenomenology and the Phil
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Mechanics, acoustics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Rationalism, SCIENCE / Mechanics / General, Classical mechanics, Western philosophy: Enlightenment