Bücher von Joseph C. Pitt

This book aims to spell out the consequences of taking the technologies behind the doing of science seriously.

This is an updated overview of the most important thinking of Joseph C. Pitt of Virginia Tech, the prominent philosopher of technology. It challenges the idea that eternal philosophical issues transcend the impact of technologies on humans and their world.

In this essay I am concerned with the problem of conceptual change. While Sellars has developed a full account of the issues involved in solving the problem of conceptual change, he is also a very difficult philosopher to discuss.

Working from Galileo's insistence on the contrast between the number of things that can be known and the limited abilities of human knowers, Pitt shows how Galileo's common sense approach to rationality permits the development of a robust scientific method.