Technological Development and Science in the Industrial Age

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction: Technological Development and Science

   • P. Kroes, M. Bakker

   Pages 1-15

3. Engineering Knowledge, Type of Design, and Level of Hierarchy: Further Thoughts About What Engineers Know…

   • Walter G. Vincenti

   Pages 17-34

4. Escape from the Jail of Shape; Dimensionality and Engineering Science

   • Edwin T. Layton Jr.

   Pages 35-68

5. On the Role of Design in Engineering Theories; Pambour’s Theory of the Steam Engine

   • Peter Kroes

   Pages 69-98

6. The Piecemeal Rationality of Application-Oriented Research

   • Andries Sarlemijn, Marc de Vries

   Pages 99-131

7. Life in the Slow Lane: Research and Electrical Engineering in Britain, France, and Italy, CA. 1900

   • Robert Fox, Anna Guagnini

   Pages 133-153

8. Mechanical Engineering in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century: Technology without a Professional Community

   • H. Lintsen, G. van Hooff, G. Verbong

   Pages 155-176

9. Hybrid Careers and the Interaction of Science and Technology

   • Eda Krankis

   Pages 177-204

10. Science and Technology: Who Gets a Say?

    • John M. Staudenmaier

    Pages 205-230

11. Science and Technology as Dancing Partners

    • Arie Rip

    Pages 231-270

12. Back Matter

    Pages 271-280

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Historians and philosophers of technology are searching for new approaches to the study of the interaction between science and technology. New conceptual frameworks are necessary since the idea that technology is simply applied science is nothing short of a myth. The papers contained in this volume deal primarily with cognitive and social aspects of the science-technology issue. One of the most salient features of these papers is that they show a major methodological shift in studying the interaction between science and technology. Discussions of the science-technology issue have long been dominated by the demarcartion problem and related semantic issues about the notions `science' and `technology', and the `technology is applied science' thesis. Instead of general `global' interpretation schemes and models of the interaction between science and technology, detailed empirical case studies of cognitive and institutional connections between `science' and `technology' constitute the hard core of this book.
The book will be of interest to philosophers of science, historians and philosophers of technology and science and sociologists of science.

• Case Studies
• Italy
• Orient
• concept
• design
• idea
• interpret
• issue
• knowledge
• mechanical engineering
• model
• myth
• rationality
• science
• will

• Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

  Peter Kroes, Martijn Bakker

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