Scientific Representation Paradoxes of Perspective 1st Edition by Bas C Van Fraassen ISBN 0199278229 9780199278220

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ISBN 10: 0199278229 
ISBN 13: 9780199278220
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.

Scientific Representation Paradoxes of Perspective 1st Table of contents:

Part I. Representation
1. Representation of, Representation As
2. Imaging, Picturing, and Scaling
3. Pictorial Perspective and the Indexical
Part II. Windows, Engines, and Measurement
4. A Window on the Invisible World (?)
5. The Problem of Coordination
6. Measurement as Representation: 1. The Physical Correlate
7. Measurement as Representation: 2. Information
Part III. Structure and Perspective
8. From the Bildtheorie of Science to Paradox
9. The Longest Journey: Bertrand Russell
10. Carnap’s Lost World and Putnam’s Paradox
11. An Empiricist Structuralism
Part IV. Appearance and Reality
12. Appearance vs. Reality in the Sciences
13. Rejecting the Appearance from Reality Criterion

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