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Quick-Freezing Philosophy: an Analysis of Imaging Technologies in Neurobiology

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New Waves in Philosophy of Technology

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Abstract

In what follows, I offer a general methodology for the analysis of the roles that technologically produced images play in scientific debate. This requires a review of insights into the philosophy of technology emerging from a budding perspective called ‘postphenomenology’. This perspective, which amalgamates central aspects of the phenomenological and pragmatic traditions of philosophy and applies them to issues of technology, offers a rich collection of concepts for the project of articulating the ways that technologies mediate people’s experience of the world. The methodology I provide below applies postphenomenological insights for both the purposes of understanding practices of image interpretation in science, and potentially offering novel research directions for contemporary scientific work.

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  1. University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen

  2. Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

    Evan Selinger

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Rosenberger, R. (2009). Quick-Freezing Philosophy: an Analysis of Imaging Technologies in Neurobiology. In: Olsen, J.K.B., Selinger, E., Riis, S. (eds) New Waves in Philosophy of Technology. New Waves in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227279_4

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