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100 1 _aVan Fraassen, Bas C.
_d1941-
245 1 0 _aScientific representation :
_bparadoxes of perspective /
_cBas C. van Fraassen.
260 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2008.
300 _axiv, 408 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [322]-344) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction. The 'picture theory of science' -- Pt. I. Representation -- 1. Representation of, Representation As -- 2. Imaging, Picturing, and Scaling -- 3. Pictorial Perspective and the Indexical -- Pt. II. Windows, Engines, and Measurement -- 4. A Window on the Invisible World (?) -- 5. The Problem of Coordination -- 6. Measurement as Representation: 1. The Physical Correlate -- 7. Measurement as Representation: 2. Information -- Pt. III. Structure and Perspective -- 8. From the Bildtheorie of Science to Paradox -- 9. The Longest Journey: Bertrand Russell -- 10. Carnap's Lost World and Putnam's Paradox -- 11. An Empiricist Structuralism -- Pt. IV. Appearance and Reality -- 12. Appearance vs. Reality in the Sciences -- 13. Rejecting the Appearance from Reality Criterion -- Appendix to CH 1. Models and theories as representations -- Appendix to CH 6. Quantum peculiarities: fuzzy observables -- Appendix to CH 7. Surface models and their embeddings -- Appendix to CH 13. Retreat (?) from The Scientific Image.
520 1 _a"Bas C. van Fraassen presents an original exploration of how we represent the world. Science represents natural phenomena by means of theories, as well as in many concrete ways by such means as pictures, graphs, table-top models, and computer simulations. Scientific Representation begins with an inquiry into the nature of representation in general, drawing on such diverse sources as Plato's dialogues, the development of perspectival drawing in the Renaissance, and the geometric styles of modelling in modern physics. Starting with Mach's and Poincare's analyses of measurement and the 'problem of coordination', van Fraassen then presents a view of measurement outcomes as representations. With respect to the theories of contemporary science he defends an empiricist structuralist version of the 'picture theory' of science, through an inquiry into the paradoxes that came to light in twentieth-century philosophies of science. Van Fraassen concludes with an analysis of the complex relationship between appearance and reality in the scientific world-picture."--BOOK JACKET.
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