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Heraclitus Redux: Technological Infrastructures and Scientific Change

Contributor(s): Pitt, Joseph C (Author)

ISBN: 9781786612359

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Pub Date: October 25, 2019

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Dust Cover

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.44" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.79 lbs) 128 pages

Series: Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society

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Description: This book aims to spell out the consequences of taking the technologies behind the doing of science seriously.

Brief description: Joseph C. Pitt is Professor of Philosophy and of Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech, where he has taught since 1971. He is the author of four books, edited or co-edited twelve additional volumes and published over 100 articles and book reviews. He and his wife, Donna, live on their Virginia farm, Calyddon, where they raise horses and Irish Wolfhounds.

Review Quotes: "Pitt's book is a powerful wake-up call for philosophers of science and for philosophers in general: neither new ideas or new evidence are the driving forces that keep science (and society) in constant flux, but changing technological infrastructures; he argues persuasively that this notion deserves a central place in any philosophical analysis of the ever changing modern human condition." --Peter Kroes, Professor emertitus, Delft University of Technology

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