How Scientific Instruments Speak: Postphenomenology and Technological Mediations in Neuroscientific Practice

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Science is highly dependent on the technologies needed to observe scientific objects. In How Scientific Instruments Speak, Bas de Boer develops a philosophical account of instruments in scientific practice, focusing on the cognitive neurosciences. He argues for an understanding of scientific instruments as mediating technology.

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Bas de Boer
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