Mediating Mars: Perceptual Experience and Scientific Imaging Technologies [Book Review]

Foundations of Science 18 (1):75-91 (2013)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

The philosophical tradition of phenomenology, with its focus on human bodily perception, can be used to explore the ways scientific instrumentation shapes a user’s experience. Building on Don Ihde’s account of technological embodiment, I develop a framework of concepts for articulating the experience of image interpretation in science. These concepts can be of practical value to the analysis of scientific debates over image interpretation for the ways they draw out the relationships between the image-making processes and the rival scientific explanations of image content. As a guiding example, I explore a contemporary debate over images of the surface of Mars which reveal a landmass that resembles river delta formations on Earth, and which thus has important implications for the history of Martian climate and water flow. The phenomenological framework I develop can be used to help evaluate the different interpretations on offer for these images, and to analyze the roles in this discussion played by spacecraft equipped with cameras and laser and thermal imaging devices

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 103,302

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

A Phenomenology of Image Use in Science.Robert Rosenberger - 2011 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 15 (2):156-169.
Stretching the In-between: Embodiment and Beyond. [REVIEW]Don Ihde - 2011 - Foundations of Science 16 (2-3):109-118.
Image Interpretation: Bridging the Gap from Mechanically Produced Image to Representation.Laura Perini - 2012 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 26 (2):153-170.
A Preliminary Inventory of the Transformations of Scientific Imaging.Robert Rosenberger - 2020 - Acta Baltica Historiae Et Philosophiae Scientiarum 8 (2):21-37.
The Aesthetics of the Scientific Image.Clive Cazeaux - 2015 - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 2 (2):187-209.
The Spatial Experience of Telephone Use.Robert Rosenberger - 2010 - Environment, Space, Place 2 (2):63-77.
Prospects for Reconciling Sellars' World Images.John Collier - 2010 - South African Journal of Philosophy 29 (4):343-356.

Analytics

Added to PP
2012-02-19

Downloads
52 (#437,458)

6 months
1 (#1,572,794)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Robert Rosenberger
Georgia Institute of Technology

References found in this work

Logical Investigations.Edmund Husserl - 1970 - London, England: Routledge. Edited by Dermot Moran.
Objectivity.Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison - 2007 - Cambridge, Mass.: Zone Books. Edited by Peter Galison.

View all 27 references / Add more references