Techno-Scientific Practices: An Informational Approach

by Federica Russo

In scholarly debates, as well as in everyday parlance, we tend to pull science and technology science gives us theory, and technology applies it. In practice, however, science and technologies are highly intertwined. In Techno-Scientific 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 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.

336 pages, Paperback

Published October 5, 2022