Techno-Scientific Practices

An Informational Approach

AvFederica Russo

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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In scholarly debates, as well as in everyday parlance, we tend to pull science and technology apart: science gives us theory, and technology applies it. In practice, however, science and technologies are highly intertwined. In Techno-Scientific Practices: An Informational Approach, Federica Russo looks at the practice of science and elucidates the role of technologies and instruments in the process of knowledge production. In this exercise, it becomes evident that technologies cannot be analyzed on their own, but always in relation to epistemic agents. Thus, Techno-Scientific Practices emphasizes the importance of analyzing the process of knowledge production in techno-scientific contexts, in which there is a triad of relations to look at: us, the instruments, and the world. The book thus builds bridges between the philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies in an unprecedent way.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-05
Mått:151 x 228 x 19 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781786612335

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Federica Russo is a philosopher of science, technology, and information based at the University of Amsterdam. Her current research concerns epistemological, methodological, and normative aspects as they arise in the biomedical and social sciences, and in highly technologized scientific contexts. Russo is the author of Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine: Principles and Procedures, Causality: Philosophical Theory Meets Scientific Practice (2014), and Causality and Causal Modelling in the Social Sciences: Measuring Variations (2009). She published numerous articles in international journals and spanning various themes, such as causation and causal modelling, explanation, evidence, and technology. Russo edited several books and special issues, including Causality in the Sciences (2011) and Critical Data Studies (2016).

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In Techno-Scientific Practices, Russo proves herself to be a masterful bridge-builder. She connects an astonishing range of fields without ever losing sight of her central project: to account for knowledge production by human and artificial epistemic agents. She is absolutely right that it takes a lot to understand techno-scientific practices, but it is remarkable how much understanding can already be gained just by reading this book.

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List of abbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Whence Philosophy of Techno-Science?PART 1: TOWARDS A PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNO-SCIENCE222. Philosophy of Science or Philosophy of Technology3. Techno-scientific practices: theoretical framework and selected episodes4. Two tools from the Philosophy of InformationPART 2: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF TECHNO-SCIENTIFIC PRACTICES5. Modeling and validation in techno-scientific practices6. The informational content of evidence7. Establishing the truth of techno-scientific claims8. Techno-scientific knowledge and the role of instruments9. Poiêsis: how human and artificial epistemic agents co-produce knowledgePART 3: THE ONTOEPISTEMOLOGY OF TECHNO-SCIENTIFIC PRACTICES10. Deriving ontology from epistemology11. The prospects of process-based ontologies12. Causality as information transmission13. Wither Philosophy of Techno-Science?BibliographyIndexAbout the author