Scientific representation : paradoxes of perspective /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=265039 |
Table of Contents:
- Representation of, representation as
- Imaging, picturing, and scaling
- Pictorial perspective and the indexical
- A window on the invisible world
- The problem of coordination
- Measurement as representation: 1. The physical correlate
- Measurement as representation: 2. Information
- From the bildtheorie of science to paradox
- The longest journey: Bertrand Russell
- Carnap's lost world and Putnam's paradox
- An empiricist structuralism
- Appearance vs. reality in the sciences
- Rejecting the appearance from reality criterion.