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Ihde is perhaps uniquely situated to provide authoritative accounts of such diverse philosophical traditions as those involved in current explorations of the technology of scientific instruments.... Ihde's book breaks new ground and... makes an important debate accessible. Robert AckermannInstrumental Realism has three principal aims: to advocate a praxis-perception approach to the philosophy of science; to explore ways in which such an approach offers a mutually illuminating overlap with a philosophy of technology; and to examine comparatively and critically the work of some who advocate an instrumental realist approach to the philosophy of science.
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Don Ihde is one of the founders of a distinctly North American approach to phenomenology in work that centers around technology. After completing his B.A. degree at the University of Kansas (1956), he earned a Master of Divinity degree at Andover Newton Theological School (1959) and a Ph.D. at Boston University (1964). His doctoral dissertation on the phenomenology of Paul Ricoeur set the stage for later original contributions to phenomenological analysis.
Ihde taught at Southern Illinois University before moving to the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where, since 1969, he has served at different times as Head of Philosophy and Dean of Liberal Arts and Humanities. In the mid-1970s, together with his colleagues at Stony Brook, Ihde developed an intentionally eclectic school of experienced-based "experimental phenomenology" with bridges to pragmatism, which has concentrated on elaborating the ways that instrumentation mediates between human beings and the world. His book Technics and Praxis (1979) was the first real work on the philosophy of technology in English. In 1990 Ihde, together with Indiana University Press, initiated a new monograph series in philosophy of technology that has since become one of the most influential collection of publications in the field.
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A discussion of five works on the role of instruments in science. Ihde (State University of New York, Stony Brook) says that these works, published between 1972 and 1985, reach a consensus on the importance of instruments in driving scientific change and the use of scientific instruments to " theoretical entities. Ihde claims that the authors--Hubert Dreyfus, Patrick Heelan, Robert Ackermann, Ian Hacking, and Ihde himself--form a " of instrumental realists. The claim seems premature since Ihde admits that most of these authors do not read the others and that, in any case, they do not fully agree on the issues. (Ackermann, in particular, is skeptical of any realistic interpretation of the data produced by the use of scientific instruments.) The issues presented here are interesting and important, but the presentation consists almost entirely of exposition of other works through direct quotation and paraphrase. The book could be useful to undergraduates as an introduction to the subject, but most professionals will want to take up Ihde's suggestion that they read and interpret the primary texts for themselves. D. Temple Roosevelt University
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| Part 1 Philosophy of Science Read through Philosophy of Technology |
| I Introduction: Philosophers and Technology |
| II The New Philosophy of Science |
| III Philosophy of Technology |
| Part 2 The Instrument as Interface |
| IV The Embodiment of Science in Technology |
| A The "Body-Philosophers" |
| B The "Mind-Philosopher" Tradition |
| C Instruments as Interface |
| V Instrumental Realism |
| VI The Experiment |
| Epilogue: Philosophy of Technology beyond Philosophy of Science |
| Notes |
| Index |