STS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Techne, Unobservable
29 Mar 2017
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Objective: machines became the primary model for explaining the universe, even though. Bacon use systematic method to unite technique and science: scientific power as a never ending progressive revolt against the natural. Mechanist world view: the principia formed the picture of the world (p. 143), machines: Self-controlled things that make other things (have a life of their own). Machen = to make, to have power, to be able (might or make). Re-produce natural processes by manufacturing the effect. Instrumental value only: the new philosophy (galileo, descartes, hobbes, boyle): All natural phenomena make sense in terms of matter in motion. Nature must be completely homogenous in material. Nature must be uniform in its operations. Like clockwork: clock = technic = model for theory, theory of the world picture, the cosmos is a human product. Causal incongruity: qualitative difference is not reducible to parts. Seriousness (attraction, love, lust, heaviness): action at a distance; gravity (occult force), newton"s synthesis:
