Legitimating the machine: the epistemological foundation of technological metaphor in the natural philosophy of René Descartes

• Autores: Andrés Vaccari
• Localización: Philosophies of technology: Francis Bacon and his contemporaries / coord. por Claus Zittel, Vol. 2, 2008 (Volume two), ISBN 978-90-04-17050-6, págs. 287-336
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Introduction -- 1. Figures and clocks: artefact and cartesian theory of metaphor -- 2. Knowing as making: the limits and nature of scientific knowledge -- 3. Illusion, appearance, the automaton -- 4. Machine semiosis or proportionality at work -- 5. Making a world -- 6. Making pictures: setting the imagination into action -- 7. Conclusion -- Selective bibliography