The Nature of Technological Knowledge. Are Models of Scientific Change Relevant?

by Rachel Laudan

Book Overview

One of the ironies of our time is the sparsity of useful analytic tools for understanding change and development within technology itself. For all the diatribes about the disastrous effects of technology on modern life, for all the equally uncritical paeans to technology as the panacea for human ills, the vociferous pro- and anti-technology movements have failed to illuminate the nature of technology. On a more scholarly level, in the midst of claims...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027717168
• ISBN13: 9789027717160
• Release Date: April 1984
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"