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For centuries the scientific study of the behavior of materials was performed in rela Email tively obscure engineering or metallurgy departments, away from the highly presti gious centers of 'pure science. For physicists it seems, the only property of materials that carried any weight was their mass; their strength was relegated to the more peripheral Password fields of applied scienceToday scienceToday this has all changed and the study of the (at least 6 characters) complex behavior of matter has acquired legitimacy and its own name: materials sci ence and engineeringThe engineering The long institutionalShow struggle to gain respect, and the more sophisticated conceptual and technical tools that may be brought to bear on the study Send me updates from Scribd of material complexity are full of lessons for the philosopher of science. Materialist philosophers it is becoming increasingly clear, cannot afford to ignore the basic fact that the study of matter does matter Sign Up Cyril Stanley Smith, a metallurgist and historian of materials, has explored the devel opment of the philosophy of matter the West and has concluded that for the most By registering a Scribd account,inyou agree to our part the study ofTerms the ofcomplexity and variability of behavior of materials has always Service and Privacy Policy been the concern of empirically oriented craftsmen or engineers, not of philosophers or scientistsHe scientistsHe argues that we may have inherited this generally condescending atti Alreadywho haveadmired an account? in tude from the Greeks, theSign handcrafted products produced by the black smith but who despised his material activities and his apparent unwillingness to engage in verbal exchanges on political or philosophical questions. As he puts i To those engaged in materials production and fabrication it may be disconcerting to realize that for a fair fraction of human history their activities have been viewed with suspicion and downright distaste by social thinkers and the general public. The ancient Greek philosophers, who set the tone for many of the attitudes still prevalent throughout Western civilization regarded those involved in the produc tion of material goods as being less worthy than agriculturalists and others who did not perform such mundane tasks . Throughout ancient society soci ety the most menial tasks, especially those of mining and metallurgy, were left to slaves Hence the common social attitude of antiquity persisting to this day in some intellectual circles, was to look down upon those who work with their hands. Xenophon stated the case in this fashion, 'What are called the mechanical arts carry a social stigma and are rightly dishonored in our cities For these arts dam age the bodies of those who work at them or who act as overseers by com pelling them to a sedentary life and to an indoor life, and, in some cases, to spend the whole day y the fireThis fireThis physical degeneration results also in deterioration of the soulFurthermore soulFurthermore the workers at these trades simply do not have the time to perform the offices o ffices of friendship friends hip or citizenshipConsequently they are loo ked
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Sign Up With Google upo as bad frieds ad bad patriots, ad i some cities, especially the warlike oes, it is ot legal for a citize to ply a mechaical trade" or with email espite this egative attitude, Smith argues that Greek philosophers like Aristotle may Name have leared much from visitig workshops, give that practically everythig about the behavior of metals ad alloys that could be explored with pre-idustrial techology was already kow to craftsme craftsme ad blacksmiths blacksmiths for at least a thousad thousad yearsIdeed, as Email he says, the early philosophies of matter may have bee derived from observatio ad coversatio coversatio with those whose eyes had see ad whose figers had felt the itricacies itricacies of the behavior of materials durig thermal processig or as they were shaped by chip pig, cuttig or plastic deformatio2Password For istace, Aristotles famous four elemets 6 characters) fire, earth, water ad air may be said(attoleast reflect a awareess awareess of what today we kow as eergy ad the three mai states of aggregatio of matter the solid,Show liquid ad gas states, all of which were very familiar to a metallurgist As metaphysical speculatio gave special these four elemetary quali Sendmeaigs me updatesto from Scribd ties their origial physical meaig was lost, ad the variability ad complexity of real materials was replaced with the uiform behavior of a philosophically simplified matter about which oe could oly speculate symbolicallySign It is Up true that sixteeth-cetury alchemists recovered a certai respec for a direct iteractio with matter ad eergy, By registering a Scribd account, you agree to our ad that seveteethcetury Cartesia philosophers speculated itesely about the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy variable properties of differet ways of aggregatig material compoets But these early attempts at capturig the complexity of physical trasmutatios ad of the effect of physical structur structure e o the complex complex properties of materials, evetually Already have an account? Sign lost in to the emer get sciece of chemistry ad its almost total cocetratio o simple behavior that of idividual compoets compoets (such as Lavoisiers oxyge) or of substaces that coform to the law of defiite proportios as i altos atomic theory here was, as Smith observes, a immese gai i these simplificatios, sice the exact scieces could ot have developed without them, but the triumph of chemistry was accompaied by a ot isigificat isigificat loss I particular, particular, the complete cocetratio of aalysis at the level of molecules caused a almost total disregard for higher levels of aggregatio i solids, but it is there where most complex properties of iterest to todays material scietist occur3 occur3 As is usual i the the history of sciece there were several exceptios, such as Galileo, who studied the stregth of materials i the sixteeth ce tury, but who may have derived his iterest ad ee some isights from his visits to the Veetia arseal, the largest militaryidustrial complex of its time ad home to a large variety of craftsmeHow craftsmeHow are we to theorise this ambivalet relatio towards com plex materiality withi sciece? eleuze ad Guattari offer a possible solutio whe they cotrast two types of sciece, or two odes of coductig scietific research, a major ad a mior mode: royal scienc ad nomad science, the sciece of the royal societies ad academies at the service of the state preoccupied above all with the discovery of abstract geeral laws, ad the humbler sciece of those who built the laboratory istru mets ad had he ob of testig the validity of those laws i cocrete phy sical situatios
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1 Melvin Kranzberg and Cyril Stanley Smith, 'Materials in History and Society in The Materials Revolution ed Tom Forrester, (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1988) p 93. 2 Cyril Stanley Smith, 'Matter Versus Materials: A Historical View in A Search for Structure (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1992) p 115. 3 Ibid, pp. 120-1 4 Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980) pp 361-2 5 Ibid, p 411 6 James Edward Gordon, The Science of Structures and Materials (Scientific Aerican Library, 1988) New York, p 18. 7 Ibid, pp. 201 8 Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos (Oxford Basil Blackwell, 1989) p 83 9 James Edward Gordon, The Science of Structures and Materials p 111 10 D. Walgraef, Pattern Selection and Symmetry Competition in Materials Instabilities in New Trends in Nonlinear Dynamics and Patte-Forming Phenomena eds Pierre Coullet and Patrick Huerre (Plenum Press, 1990) New York, p 26 11 Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guttari, A Thousand Plateaus p 408 12 See Manuel DeLanda, Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (London Continuum Press, 2002) for a full discussion of singularities and affects. 13 James Edward Gordon, The Science of Structures and Materials p. 135 14 Ibid, p 200. 15 Cyril Stanley Smith, Reflections on Technology and the Decorative Arts in the Nineteenth Century in A Search for Structure, cit p 313
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