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Visual Representations in Science: Concept and Epistemology

Visual Representations in Science: Concept and Epistemology

Hardcover

Series: History and Philosophy of Technoscience

Technology & EngineeringGeneral World HistoryHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 1138089931
ISBN13: 9781138089938
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 23 2018
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.58
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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