Visual 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 for re...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2018
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| Series: | History and Philosophy of Technoscience
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| Online Access: | OAPEN Library: description of the publication |
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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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (372 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9781138089938 |
| Access: | Open Access |