Living in a Nuclear World

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• The Fukushima disaster invites us to look back and probe how nuclear technology has shaped the world we live in, and how we have come to live with it.... Lees meer

Nanotechnology and Its Governance

Arie Rip

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• This book charts the development of nanotechnology in relation to society from the early years of the twenty-first century. It offers a sustained anal... Lees meer

Spaceship Earth in the Environmental Age, 1960-1990

Sabine Höhler

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• The idea of the earth as a vessel in space came of age in an era shaped by space travel and the Cold War. Höhler's study brings together technology, s... Lees meer

Visual Representations in Science

Nicola Mößner

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• Visual representations (photographs, diagrams, etc.) play crucial roles in scientific processes. They help, for example, to communicate research resul... Lees meer

Scientists' Expertise as Performance

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• The essays in this collection explore our reliance on experts within a historical context and across a wide range of fields, including agriculture, en... Lees meer

Material Hermeneutics

Don Ihde

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• Material Hermeneutics explores the ways that new imaging technologies and scientific instruments have changed our notions about ancient history. It wi... Lees meer

The Future of Scientific Practice

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• Focusing on cell dynamics, molecular medicine and robotics, contributors explore the interplay between biological, technological and theoretical ways ... Lees meer

Reflections on the Practice of Physics

Giora Hon, Bernard R Goldstein

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• This monograph examines James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to electromagnetism to gain insight into the practice of science by focusing on scientific... Lees meer

From Models to Simulations

Franck Varenne

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological consequen... Lees meer

Post-Truth Imaginations

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth discourse is more deeply entang... Lees meer

Error and Uncertainty in Scientific Practice

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• Assessment of error and uncertainty is a vital component of both natural and social science. This edited volume presents case studies of research prac... Lees meer

Philosophy, Computing and Information Science

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• Over the last four decades computers and the internet have become an intrinsic part of all our lives, but this speed of development has left related p... Lees meer

The Past, Present, and Future of Integrated History and Philosophy of Science

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (iHPS) is commonly understood as the study of science from a combined historical and philosophical perspe... Lees meer

Standardization in Measurement

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• The application of standard measurement is a cornerstone of modern science. In this collection of essays, standardization of procedure, units of measu... Lees meer

A History of Technoscience

David F Channell

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• Are science and technology independent of one another? Is technology dependent upon science, and if so, how is it dependent? Is science dependent upon... Lees meer

The Mysterious Science of the Sea, 1775-1943

Natascha Adamowsky

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• The depths of the oceans are the last example of terra incognita on earth. Adamowsky presents a study of the sea, arguing that - contrary to popular b... Lees meer

Nanotechnology and Its Governance

Arie Rip

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• This book charts the development of nanotechnology in relation to society from the early years of the twenty-first century. It offers a sustained anal... Lees meer

Experiments in Practice

Astrid Schwarz

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• Traditionally experimentation has been understood as an activity performed within the laboratory, but in the twenty-first century this view is being c... Lees meer

Reflections on the Practice of Physics

Bernard R Goldstein

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• This monograph examines James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to electromagnetism to gain insight into the practice of science by focusing on scientific... Lees meer

Reasoning in Measurement

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• This collection offers a new understanding of the epistemology of measurement. The interdisciplinary volume explores how measurements are produced, fo... Lees meer

Experiments in Practice

Astrid Schwarz

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• Traditionally experimentation has been understood as an activity performed within the laboratory, but in the twenty-first century this view is being c... Lees meer

Perspectives on Classification in Synthetic Sciences

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• This volume launches a new series of contemporary conversations about scientific classification. Most philosophical conversations about kinds have foc... Lees meer

From Models to Simulations

Franck Varenne

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological consequen... Lees meer

Post-Truth Imaginations

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
• This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth is more deeply entangled with m... Lees meer