Scientific Representation
Paradoxes of Perspective
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 August 2008
- ISBN 9780199278220
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages422 pages
- Size 240x163x27 mm
- Weight 786 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Bas C. van Fraassen presents an original exploration of how we represent the world. He investigates the nature of representation in both science and art; he defends a distinctive position in contemporary philosophy of science; and he illuminates the complex relationship between appearance and reality.
MoreLong description:
Bas C. van Fraassen presents an original exploration of how we represent the world. Science represents natural phenomena by means of theories, as well as in many concrete ways by such means as pictures, graphs, table-top models, and computer simulations. Scientific Representation begins with an inquiry into the nature of representation in general, drawing on such diverse sources as Plato's dialogues, the development of perspectival drawing in the Renaissance, and the geometric styles of modelling in modern physics. Starting with Mach's and Poincar
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: the 'picture theory of science'
PART ONE: REPRESENTATION
Representation of, Representation as
Imaging, Picturing, and Scaling
Pictorial Perspective and the Indexical
PART TWO. WINDOWS, ENGINES, AND MEASUREMENT
A Window on the Invisible World (?)
The Problem of Coordination
Measurement as Representation (1) The Physical Correlate
Measurement as Representation (2) Information
PART THREE. STRUCTURE AND PERSPECTIVE
From the Bildtheorie of science to paradox
The Longest Journey: Bertrand Russell
Carnap's Lost World and Putnam's Paradox
An Empiricist Structuralism
PART FOUR. APPEARANCE AND REALITY
Appearance vs. Reality in the Sciences
Rejecting the Appearance from Reality Criterion
APPENDICES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
