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Author:   Bas de Boer
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781793627841

ISBN 10:   1793627843
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   15 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table 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

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How Scientific Instruments Speak sheds a radically new light on the role of technology in scientific practice. With a strong focus on neuroscience, Bas de Boer explains with much rigor and depth how scientific instruments help to shape the frameworks of scientific interpretation and explanation. A much-needed and innovative contribution to the philosophy of science, the philosophy of technology, and their intersections.--Peter-Paul Verbeek, University of Twente This author argues that technology mediates the reality that is studied by scientists. In accomplishing this, de Boer takes a fascinating turn at studying the reliance of cognitive neuroscience on its advanced medical technologies, focusing in particular on the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)...De Boer's arguments seamlessly straddle two domains: the philosophy of science--by looking carefully at the role of justification--and the philosophy of technology--by focusing on how humans relate to the world through tools and technologies. Researchers in both philosophy of science and philosophy of technology will no doubt want to heed de Boer's important contribution. Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.-- Choice

"This author argues that technology mediates the reality that is studied by scientists. In accomplishing this, de Boer takes a fascinating turn at studying the reliance of cognitive neuroscience on its advanced medical technologies, focusing in particular on the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)...De Boer's arguments seamlessly straddle two domains: the philosophy of science--by looking carefully at the role of justification--and the philosophy of technology--by focusing on how humans relate to the world through tools and technologies. Researchers in both philosophy of science and philosophy of technology will no doubt want to heed de Boer's important contribution. Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. ""How Scientific Instruments Speak sheds a radically new light on the role of technology in scientific practice. With a strong focus on neuroscience, Bas de Boer explains with much rigor and depth how scientific instruments help to shape the frameworks of scientific interpretation and explanation. A much-needed and innovative contribution to the philosophy of science, the philosophy of technology, and their intersections."""

How Scientific Instruments Speak sheds a radically new light on the role of technology in scientific practice. With a strong focus on neuroscience, Bas de Boer explains with much rigor and depth how scientific instruments help to shape the frameworks of scientific interpretation and explanation. A much-needed and innovative contribution to the philosophy of science, the philosophy of technology, and their intersections. --Peter-Paul Verbeek, University of Twente

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

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