Scientific representation : paradoxes of perspective /

Main Author: Van Fraassen, Bas C., 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2008.
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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.