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101It’s Not About TechnologyKnowledge, Technology & Policy 23 (3): 445-454. 2010.It is argued that the question “Can we trust technology?” is unanswerable because it is open-ended. Only questions about specific issues that can have specific answers should be entertained. It is further argued that the reason the question cannot be answered is that there is no such thing as Technology _simpliciter_. Fundamentally, the question comes down to trusting people and even then, the question has to be specific about trusting a person to do this or that.
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13The Discovery of Kepler's Laws: The Interaction of Science, Philosophy, and Religion. Job KozhamthadamIsis 86 (3): 485-486. 1995.
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Comments on Rescher's "Noumenal Causality"Société Française de Philosophie, Bulletin 65 (1): 78. 1974.
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21Philosophy at Virginia Tech. He recently published Thinking About Tech-nology (Seven Bridges Press, 2000) and is co-editor of the forthcoming Pro-duction and Diffusion of Publish Choice (Blackwells, 2003). He is currently working on a new project concerning the role of innovative instrumenta (review)Perspectives on Science 9 (4). 2001.
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9New Directions in the Philosophy of TechnologySpringer Verlag. 1995.In this collection we finally find the philosophy of technology, a young and rapidly developing area of scholarly interest, making contact with history of science and technology, and mainstream epistemological and metaphysical issues. The sophistication of these papers indicates the maturity of the field as it moves away from the advocacy of anti-technology ideological posturing toward a deeper understanding of the options and restraints technological developments provide. The papers presented h…Read more
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21The Character of Galilean EvidencePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986. 1986.We examine Galileo's theory of evidence as presented in his Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems. It is argued that for Galileo evidence not only had to be tied to the senses, but, that for purposes of evidential relevance, epistemologically significant experience is only of terrestrial objects and events. This account forms the first part of an argument for understanding Galileo as an instrumentalist. The second part of the argument consists in examining Galileo's views on the limits of know…Read more
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43Hume and Peirce on Belief, or, Why Belief Should Not Be Considered an Epistemic CategoryTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 41 (2). 2005.
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24Review of Carla Rita Palmerino (ed.), J.m.M.h. Thijssen (ed.), The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (7). 2005.
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50On the Philosophy of Technology, Past and FutureTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 1 (1-2): 18-22. 1995.
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5Introduction: Through the Looking GlassIn Joseph Pitt (ed.), The Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars: Queries and Extensions, D. Reidel. pp. 1--18. 1978.
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81The question is how do Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEMs) give us access to the nano world? The images these instruments produce, I argue, do not allow us to see atoms in the same way that we see trees. To the extent that SEMs and STMs allow us to see the occupants of the nano world it is by way of metaphorical extension of the concept of “seeing”. The more general claim is that changes in scientific instrumentation effect changes in the concepts central to our understanding of scientific resu…Read more
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30Small Talk: Nanotechnology and MetaphorSpontaneous Generations 2 (1): 90. 2008.The general topic I am addressing concerns the epistemological role of the use of metaphor in the philosophy of science. More specifically, I am concerned with the role metaphor plays in scientific and technological change. In the case in point, nanotechnology, I will explore the role of metaphor in changing our conception of the confirmation of the plausibility of theoretical notions. The basic idea is that metaphors either offer or suggest images that are meant to persuade one to change one’s …Read more
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Galileo, Human Knowledge, and the Book of Nature. Method Replaces MetaphysicsTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 57 (2): 359-360. 1995.
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6Doing Philosophy: Rescher's Normative MethodologyPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 64 135-145. 1998.
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Epistemology |
General Philosophy of Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
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Epistemology |
General Philosophy of Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |