Screen LibraryVisual representations in science : concept and epistemology /
"Visual representations (photographs, diagrams, etc.) play crucial roles in scientific processes. They help, for example, to communicate research results and hypotheses to scientific peers as well as to the lay audience. In genuine research activities they are used as evidence or as surrogates...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
History and philosophy of technoscience ;
13 |
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| Summary: |
"Visual representations (photographs, diagrams, etc.) play crucial roles in scientific processes. They help, for example, to communicate research results and hypotheses to scientific peers as well as to the lay audience. In genuine research activities they are used as evidence or as surrogates for research objects which are otherwise cognitively inaccessible. Despite their important functional roles in scientific practices, philosophers of science have more or less neglected visual representations in their analyses of epistemic methods and tools of reasoning in science. This book is meant to fill this gap. It presents a detailed investigation into central conceptual issues and into the epistemology of visual representations in science."-- |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [342]-360) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138089938 1138089931 |
| Index Number: | Q222 |
| CLC: | G304 |
| Call Number: | G304/M913 |