PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SEMINAR, D o n I h d e

Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SEMINAR (http://hps.elte.hu/seminar) ________________________________________________ 11 June 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language: English) D o n I h d e Department of Philosophy, SUNY, Stony Brook Epistemology Engines The history of science is filled with important theories and discoveries based upon observations of technologies, for example, thermodynamics comes from the steam engine as historians claim. I shall examine several cases of lifeworld practices which relate to scientific developments, including cannon warfare and ballistics, railway schedules and clocks for special relativity, etc. But the focus will be upon technologies which become explicit models for knowledge production. In the first case, I shall examine the role of the camera obscura for early modern epistemology and then the 'return of the book of life' for contemporary epistemology. The organizer of the seminar: László E. Szabó -- Laszlo E. Szabo Department of Theoretical Physics Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Home: (36-1) 200-7318 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo