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Paradigms in Cartography - An Epistemological Review of the 20th and 21st Centuries (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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Paradigms in Cartography - An Epistemological Review of the 20th and 21st Centuries (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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In this book the main trends, concepts and directions in
cartography and mapping in modernism and post-modernism are
reviewed. Philosophical and epistemological issues are analysed in
cartography from positivist-empiricist, neo-positivist and
post-structuralist stances. In general, in cartography
technological aspects have been considered as well as theoretical
issues. The aim is to highlight the epistemological and
philosophical viewpoint during the development of the discipline.
Some main philosophers who have been influential for contemporary
thinking such as Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Popper
and Bertrand Russell, are considered. None of these philosophers
wrote about cartography directly (excepting Kant), but their
philosophies are related to cartography and mapping issues. The
book also analyses the concept of paradigm or paradigm shift coined
by Thomas Kuhn, who applied it to the history of science. Different
cartographic trends that have arisen since the second half of the
twentieth century are analysed according to this important concept
which is implicit inside the scientific or disciplinary
communities. Further, the authors analyse the position of
cartography in the context of the sciences and other disciplines,
adopting a positivistic point of view. Additionally, they review
current trends in cartography and mapping in the context of
information and communication technologies in a post-modernistic or
post-structuralistic framework. Thus, since the 1980s and 1990s,
new mapping concepts have arisen which challenge the discipline's
traditional map conceptions.
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