Screen LibraryScientific representation：paradoxes of perspective
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Clarendon Press Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 408 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780199278220 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0199278229 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | N02 |
| CLC: | N02 |
| Call Number: | N02/V252-1 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [322]-344) and index. 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. |