Heraclitus Redux: Technological Infrastructures and Scientific Change

This book aims to spell out the consequences of taking the technologies behind the doing of science seriously.

List of contents

1. Introduction / 2. Galileo and the Telescope / 3. The Technological Infrastructure of Science / 4. Scientific Observation / 5. "Seeing" at the nano-level / 6. When Technological Infrastructures fail / 7. Scientific Progress? / 8. Technological Progress? / 9. Scientific Change / 10. Technological Development and the Process of Science / 11. A Heraclitian Philosophy of Technology

About the author

Joseph C. Pitt is Professor of Philosophy and of Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech, where he has taught since 1971. He is the author of four books, edited or co-edited twelve additional volumes and published over 100 articles and book reviews. He and his wife, Donna, live on their Virginia farm, Calyddon, where they raise horses and Irish Wolfhounds.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph C. Pitt, Pitt Joseph C.
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.10.2019
• EAN: 9781786612359
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-235-9
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 349 g
• Illustrations: 5 BW Illustrations
• Series: Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge