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Scientific Representation - Paradoxes of Perspective (Hardcover)
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Scientific Representation - Paradoxes of Perspective (Hardcover)
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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.
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