ISBN:
9789048138517
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXVI, 260p, digital)
Series Statement:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 262
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Beyond mimesis and convention
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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Science History
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Aesthetics
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Genetic epistemology
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Science Philosophy
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Arts
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Philosophy
;
Aesthetics
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Arts
;
Genetic epistemology
;
Philosophy (General)
;
Science History
;
Science Philosophy
;
Mimesis
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Kunst
;
Wissenschaftsphilosophie
;
Mimesis
;
Kunst
;
Wissenschaftsphilosophie
Abstract:
Representation is a concern crucial to the sciences and the arts alike. Scientists devote substantial time to devising and exploring representations of all kinds. From photographs and computer-generated images to diagrams, charts, and graphs; from scale models to abstract theories, representations are ubiquitous in, and central to, science. Likewise, after spending much of the twentieth century in proverbial exile as abstraction and Formalist aesthetics reigned supreme, representation has returned with a vengeance to contemporary visual art. Representational photography, video and ever-evolvin
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Contents; Contributors; About the Authors; Introduction; From Science to Art; From Art to Science; Problems and Prospects; References; Telling Instances; Representation; Representation As; Exemplification; Fiction; Epistemic Access; Problems Evaded; Objectivity; References; Models: Parables v Fables; How Fables and Parables Help Us Understand the Use of Models: A Short Survey of This Paper; The Problem of Unrealistic Assumptions, Round 1: Valid Arguments but False Premises; The Plan; Solution, Round 1: Galilean Thought Experiments
Description / Table of Contents:
The Problem of Unrealistic Assumptions, Round 2: OverconstraintFables and Models, Their Morals and Lessons; Solution, Round 3: From Falsehood to Truth via Abstraction; The Problem of Unrealistic Assumptions, Round 3: Not Fables but Parables; Conclusion; References; Truth and Representation in Science: Two Inspirations from Art; Varieties of Truth in Art and Science; Preliminaries on Approximate Truth; Truth in the Context of Abstraction and Idealization; Denotation in Art, Reference in Science; Representations and Practice as Products and Production; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Learning Through Fictional Narratives in Art and ScienceI; II; III; IV; References; Models as Make-Believe; Representation in Modeling; The Problem of Scientific Representation; Misrepresentation; Does the Problem Exist?; Stipulation and Salt Shakers; Models as Make-Believe; Walton's Theory: Props and Games; Make-Believe and Model-Representation; Make-Believe and Stipulation; Make-Believe, Misrepresentation and Realism; Models and Works of Fiction; Models Without Actual Objects; The Variety of Models Without Actual Objects
Description / Table of Contents:
Existing Accounts of Scientific Representation and Models Without Actual ObjectsModels as Make-Believe and Models Without Actual Objects; Conclusion; References; Fiction and Scientific Representation; Introduction; Model-Systems and Fiction; Strictures on Structures; Model-Systems and Imagination; The Anatomy of Scientific Modeling; A First Stab at T-Representation; Re-reading the Newtonian Model of the SunEarth System; Conclusion; References; Fictional Entities, Theoretical Models and Figurative Truth; Preamble; Apparent Reference to Fictional Characters; Genuine vs. Figurative Reference
Description / Table of Contents:
Scientific Models as FictionsConcluding Afterthought: Carnapian Associations; References; Visual Practices Across the University; 1; 2; 3; The Plaque Assay; Transmission Electron Microscopy; Gene Mapping; Electrophoresis; Immunogold Electron Microscopy; Other Kinds of Pictures; Conclusions; *; References; Experiment, Theory, Representation: Robert Hookes Material Models; Gross Similitudes; In Some Things Analogous to the One, and Somewhat to the Other, Though not Exactly the Same with Either
Description / Table of Contents:
It Behove Them, Who Professe the Knowledge of Nature or Reason, Rightly to Apprehend the Severall Waies Whereby They may be Expressed
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-90-481-3851-7
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