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"This is a story about the closure of a major US research instrument due to posturing politicians, fake facts, scientists untrained in public speaking, and a Federal bureaucracy unable to resist political pressure. The story foreshadows today's episodes of science denial, and offers insights for how to cope with it"--

This remarkable volume attests to the world-wide development of a hermeneutical approach to the natural sciences. Questions raised by the essays include: What is a phenomenology of `scientific' perception? How does meaning arise out of laboratory situations? How do individuals or groups come to terms with the particular problem situations in which they find themselves by drawing on the available conceptual and practical resources which structure these situations? The essays are organized around three central themes. One group of authors (Heelan, Kockelmans, and Gremmen/Jacobs) recalls and applies existing historical resources of hermeneutical phenomenology to current scientific and social issues. A second group (Kisiel, Eger) considers the differences between a specifically hermeneutical approach to science and related approaches such as cultural studies and social constructivism. A third group (Ihde, Gendlin) seeks to forge new directions and tools for understanding natural scientific practice. As Crease's introductory essay makes plain, the authors share the commitment of hermeneutical philosophy to the priority of meaning over technique, the primacy of the practical over the theoretical, and the priority of situation over abstract formulation. In the process, the authors revive and transform the ancient Greek idea that the key to living well, to being fully and authentically human, resides primarily in the exercise of the practical not the theoretical virtues, in the art of doing well in the workworld and acting well in the polis

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: To the Things Themselves -- 1 Technology and the Self -- 2 The Thing About Technology -- 3 Postphenomonology -- 4 A Material Hermeneutic -- 5 The Acts of Artifacts -- 6 Devices and the Good Life -- 7 Artifacts in Design -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction by Robert P. Crease -- 1. The Shoreham Commission -- 2. The Superconducting Super Collider and the Collider Decade -- 3. Managing a National Laboratory -- 4. Presidential Science Advisor I: Advice and Advocacy in Washington -- 5. Presidential Science Advisor II: Measuring and Prioritizing -- 6. The Science and Art of Science Policy -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Friis and Crease illustrate the diversity of content and styles in postphenomenology, a burgeoning field that has attracted attention among scholars engaged in technology studies. Contributors to this edited collection seek to analyze, clarify, and develop postphenomenological language and concepts, expand the work of Don Ihde, the field's founder, and scout into fields that Ihde never tackled.

This edited collection explores the distinctive contributions of postphenomenological perspectives toward imaging in science, medicine, and everyday life. With its original empirical investigations of imaging across a variety of fields, the book expands our conceptual framework for understanding images.