Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction: Realization and Nonlocality in Science and Technology

Chapter 2 Reproduction and Nonlocality in Experimental Science

2. 1 Introduction

2. 2 The Realization and Description of Reproducible Experiments

2. 3 Reproduction in Experimental Practice

2. 4 Normativity, Stability, and Nonlocality

2. 5 The Experimenters' Regress

2. 6 Data versus Phenomena?

2. 7 Experimental Science and Its Social Legitimation

Chapter 3 Heuristics, Correspondence, and Nonlocality in Theoretical Science

3. 1 Introduction: Intertheoretical Correspondence as a Nonlocal Pattern

3. 2 The Generalized Correspondence Principle

3. 3 The Correspondence Principle and the Rise of Quantum Mechanics, 1913–1925

3. 4 Correspondence in Modern Quantum Theory

3. 5 Evaluation of the Generalized Correspondence Principle

3. 6 Correspondence and Heuristics

3. 7 Philosophical Conclusions

Chapter 4 Science, Realization, and Reality

4. 1 Change and Work

4. 2 Meeting the Kuhnian Challenge: A Referentially Realist Epistemology for Experimental Science

4. 3 Meeting the Bachelardian Challenge: An Ontology of Persistently Real Potentialities and Historically Contingent Realizations

4. 4 Realizing Types and Ranges of Reproducibility

4. 5 The Abstraction (plus Interpretation and Realization) of Nonlocals

4. 6 Between Transcendental Realism and Constructivism

4. 7 Experimentation versus Observation?

Chapter 5 Normative Reflexions on Constructivist Approaches to Science and Technology

5. 1 Introduction

5. 2 Normativity in Constructivism

5. 3 Reflexivity in Constructivism

5. 4 Locality

5. 5 Ontological, Epistemological, and Methodological Relativism

5. 6 The Actor-Network Theory

5. 7 Conclusion: Analytical, Critical, and Constructive Reflexivity

Chapter 6 Experiment, Technology, and the Intrinsic Connection between Knowledge and Power

6. 1 Introduction

6. 2 The Production and Maintenance of Closed Systems

6. 3 The Relation between Experimentation and Technological Production

6. 4 The Effects of "Effect Thinking"

6. 5 The Intrinsic Connection between Knowledge and Power

Chapter 7 The Appropriate Realization of Technology: The Case of Agricultural Biotechnology

7. 1 Introduction

7. 2 The Potentialities and Actualities of Agricultural Biotechnology and Its Ethics

7. 3 Realizing Technology

7. 4 Realizing Appropriate Technology

7. 5 Realizing Appropriate Agricultural Biotechnology

7. 6 Conclusion

Chapter 8 Philosophy: In and about the World

8. 1 Introduction

8. 2 Philosophy as Theoretical

8. 3 Philosoophy as Normative

8. 4 Philosophy as Reflexive

Notes

References

Index