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Author(s): Van Fraassen, Bas C
ISBN(s): 9780199278237, 0199278237
Edition: 1. publ. in paperback
File Details: PDF, 1.47 MB
Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199278237

ISBN 13: 9780199278237 

Author: Bas C. Van Fraassen

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 Poincaré’s analyses of measurement and the ‘problem of coordination’, van Fraassen then presents a view of measurement outcomes as representations. With respect to the theories of contemporary science he defends an empiricist structuralist version of the ‘picture theory’ of science, through an inquiry into the paradoxes that came to light in twentieth-century philosophies of science. Van Fraassen concludes with an analysis of the complex relationship between appearance and reality in the scientific world-picture.

Table of contents:

Preface
Introduction: the ‘picture theory of science’
PART ONE: REPRESENTATION
1.1:Representation of, Representation as
1.2:Imaging, Picturing, and Scaling
1.3:Pictorial Perspective and the Indexical
PART TWO. WINDOWS, ENGINES, AND MEASUREMENT
2.1:A Window on the Invisible World (?)
2.2:The Problem of Coordination
2.3: Measurement as Representation (1) The Physical Correlate
2.4:Measurement as Representation (2) Information
PART THREE. STRUCTURE AND PERSPECTIVE
3.1: From the Bildtheorie of science to paradox
3.2:The Longest Journey: Bertrand Russell
3.3:Carnap’s Lost World and Putnam’s Paradox
3.4: An Empiricist Structuralism
PART FOUR. APPEARANCE AND REALITY
4.1:Appearance vs. Reality in the Sciences
4.2:Rejecting the Appearance from Reality Criterion
APPENDICES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES

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