Scientific representation paradoxes of perspective
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Clarendon Press
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st. pub |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b18581882*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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. Appearence and reality 4.1. Appearance vs. Reality in the Sciences 4.2. Rejecting the Appearance from Reality Criterion
- Appendices
