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Technological development and science in the Industrial Age : new perspectives on the science-technology relationship

Title: Technological development and science in the Industrial Age : new perspectives on the science-technology relationship / edited by Peter Kroes and Martijn Bakker.
Publication: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©1992.
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vii, 277 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"Historians and philosophers of technology are searching for new approaches to the study of the interaction between science and technology. New conceptual frameworks are necessary since the idea that technology is simply applied science is nothing short of a myth. The papers contained in this volume deal primarily with cognitive and social aspects of the science-technology issue. One of the most salient features of these papers is that they show a major methodological shift in studying the interaction between science and technology. Discussions of the science-technology issue have long been dominated by the demarcation problem and related semantic issues about the notions 'science' and 'technology', and the 'technology is applied science' thesis. Instead of general 'global' interpretation schemes and models of the interaction between science and technology, detailed empirical case studies of cognitive and institutional connections between 'science' and 'technology' constitute the hard core of this book." "The book will be of interest to philosophers of science, historians and philosophers of technology and science and sociologists of science."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 144

Uniform Title

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 144.

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Genre/Form

Kongreß – Eindhoven – 1990.
Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

Based on papers from a conference held at Eindhoven (The Netherlands) in Nov. 1990.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Engineering knowledge, type of design, and level of hierarchy / Walter G. Vincenti -- Escape from the jail of shape / Edwin T. Layton Jr. -- On the role of design in engineering / Peter Kroes -- The piecemeal rationality of application-oriented research / Andries Sarlemijn and Marc De Vries -- Life in the slow lane / Robert Fox and Anna Guagnini -- Mechanical engineering in the Netherlands in the nineteenth century / Harry Lintsen, Giel Van Hooff and Geert Verbong -- Hybrid careers and the interaction of science and technology / Eda Kranakis -- Science and technology / John M. Staudenmaier -- Science and technology as dancing partners / Arie Rip.

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OA (Boston studies in the philosophy of science. v. 144)

ISBN

0792318986
9780792318989

LCCN

92001611

OCLC

26129631

Title

Technological development and science in the Industrial Age : new perspectives on the science-technology relationship / edited by Peter Kroes and Martijn Bakker.

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volume

Series

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 144

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 144.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Technology Philosophy

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Kroes, Peter, 1950-

Bakker, Martijn, 1956-

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OA (Boston studies in the philosophy of science. v. 144)

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