Scientific representation: paradoxes of perspective
The author presents an original exploration of how we represent the world. He investigates the nature of representation in both science and art, defends a distinctive position in contemporary philosophy of science, and illuminates the complex relationship between appearance and reality.
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| Zusammenfassung: | The author presents an original exploration of how we represent the world. He investigates the nature of representation in both science and art, defends a distinctive position in contemporary philosophy of science, and illuminates the complex relationship between appearance and reality. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-397) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 408 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9780199278220 |
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| adam_text | List of Figures
2.1. Reflection and Refraction 44
3.1. Perspective Altimetry 62
3.2. Window and Checkerboard 63
3.3. Diirer, The Draughtsmen of the Lute 65
3.4. Frame of Reference vs. Perspective 67
3.5. Speed in Perspective 68
3.6. Cross Ratio Invariance 73
4.1. Geometry of the Rainbow 102
4.2. Image Categories 104
6.1. Measurement Schema 147
6.2. Coherence of Measurement 153
8.1. Adequacy as Symmetry 196
10.1. Putnam s Paradox 230
12.1. Copernicus s Model of Retrograde Motion 288
13.1. Failure of Supervenience 293
Contents
Preface vii
List of Figures ix
Introduction: the picture theory of science i
Part I. Representation
1. Representation of, Representation As 11
The value of distortion 12
How does a representation represent? 15
What s in a photo? 20
What is a representation then? 22
Appearance to the intellect: illumination as embedding 29
In conclusion 30
2. Imaging, Picturing, and Scaling 33
Modes of representation 33
What distinguishes a picture? 36
Mathematical imagery, distortion through abstraction 39
Scale models and virtuous distortion 49
Conclusion about imaging and scaling 56
3. Pictorial Perspective and the Indexical 59
Pictorial perspective and the Art of Measuring 60
Perspective versus Descartes s frames of reference 66
Mapping and perspectival self-location 75
What is in a map? 82
Visual perspective and the metaphor 84
Concluding empiricist postscript 86
Xll CONTENTS
Part II. Windows, Engines, and Measurement
4. A Window on the Invisible World (?) 93
Instrumentation s diversity of roles 94
Engines of creation: engendering new phenomena 100
The microscope s public hallucinations 101
Objections to this view of observation by instruments 105
Experimentation s diversity of roles in
5. The Problem of Coordination 115
Coordination: a historical context 116
The problem of coordination reconceived 121
Mach on the history of the thermometer 125
Poincare s analysis of time measurement 130
Observables coordinated: two morals 137
6. Measurement as Representation: 1. The Physical Correlate 141
Physical conditions of possibility for measurement 141
General theory of measurement 147
What is not measurement 156
7. Measurement as Representation: 2. Information 157
What is measurement—number-assigning? 158
The scale as logical space 164
Data models and surface models 166
The over-arching concept for measurement 172
What is a measurement outcome? 179
Relating the views from above and from within 184
Part III. Structure and Perspective
8. From the Bildtheorie of Science to Paradox 191
The Bildtheorie controversy 191
Representation: the problem for structuralism 204
CONTENTS Xlli
9. The Longest Journey: Bertrand Russell 213
Prolegomena to Russell s conversion to structuralism 213
Russell s structuralist turn 217
Conclusion 223
10. Carnap s Lost World and Putnam s Paradox 225
Carnap: Der Logisdie Aujbau der Welt 225
Putnam s Paradox 229
Staying with Putnam: the Paradox dissolved 232
11. An Empiricist Structuralism 237
What could be an empiricist structuralism? 237
The fundamental remaining problem for a structuralist view
of science 239
The two main dangers for an empiricist 244
The problem in concrete setting revisited and dissolved 253
Return to our epistemological question 261
Part IV. Appearance and Reality
12. Appearance vs. Reality in the Sciences 269
Appearance and reality: the real and unreal problem 270
Appearance versus reality at the birth of modern science 270
Three putative completeness criteria 276
Appearance vs. reality: A deeper Criterion 280
Phenomena versus appearances 283
Three-faceted representation 288
13. Rejecting the Appearance from Reality Criterion 291
The supervenience of mind challenge 292
The Great Leibnizian Escape move 296
The quantum mechanics challenge 297
Exploring the case of quantum mechanics 300
Supervenience? 3°4
An empiricist view 3°4
XIV CONTENTS
APPENDICES
Appendix to CH i. Models and theories as representations 309
Appendix to CH 6. Quantum peculiarities: fuzzy observables 312
Appendix to CH 7. Surface models and their embeddings 315
Appendix to CH 13. Retreat (?) from The Scientific Image 317
Notes to Appendices 320
Bibliography 322
No to 345
Index 399
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List of Figures
2.1. Reflection and Refraction 44
3.1. Perspective Altimetry 62
3.2. Window and Checkerboard 63
3.3. Diirer, The Draughtsmen of the Lute 65
3.4. Frame of Reference vs. Perspective 67
3.5. Speed in Perspective 68
3.6. Cross Ratio Invariance 73
4.1. Geometry of the Rainbow 102
4.2. Image Categories 104
6.1. Measurement Schema 147
6.2. Coherence of Measurement 153
8.1. Adequacy as Symmetry 196
10.1. Putnam's Paradox 230
12.1. Copernicus's Model of Retrograde Motion 288
13.1. Failure of Supervenience 293
Contents
Preface vii
List of Figures ix
Introduction: the 'picture theory of science' i
Part I. Representation
1. Representation of, Representation As 11
The value of distortion 12
How does a representation represent? 15
What's in a photo? 20
What is a representation then? 22
Appearance to the intellect: illumination as embedding 29
In conclusion 30
2. Imaging, Picturing, and Scaling 33
Modes of representation 33
What distinguishes a picture? 36
Mathematical imagery, distortion through abstraction 39
Scale models and virtuous distortion 49
Conclusion about imaging and scaling 56
3. Pictorial Perspective and the Indexical 59
Pictorial perspective and the Art of Measuring 60
Perspective versus Descartes's frames of reference 66
Mapping and perspectival self-location 75
What is in a map? 82
Visual perspective and the metaphor 84
Concluding empiricist postscript 86
Xll CONTENTS
Part II. Windows, Engines, and Measurement
4. A Window on the Invisible World (?) 93
Instrumentation's diversity of roles 94
Engines of creation: engendering new phenomena 100
The microscope's public hallucinations 101
Objections to this view of'observation by instruments' 105
Experimentation's diversity of roles in
5. The Problem of Coordination 115
Coordination: a historical context 116
The problem of coordination reconceived 121
Mach on the history of the thermometer 125
Poincare's analysis of time measurement 130
Observables coordinated: two morals 137
6. Measurement as Representation: 1. The Physical Correlate 141
Physical conditions of possibility for measurement 141
General theory of measurement 147
What is not measurement 156
7. Measurement as Representation: 2. Information 157
What is measurement—number-assigning? 158
The scale as logical space 164
Data models and surface models 166
The over-arching concept for measurement 172
What is a measurement outcome? 179
Relating the views 'from above' and 'from within' 184
Part III. Structure and Perspective
8. From the Bildtheorie of Science to Paradox 191
The Bildtheorie controversy 191
Representation: the problem for structuralism 204
CONTENTS Xlli
9. The Longest Journey: Bertrand Russell 213
Prolegomena to Russell's conversion to structuralism 213
Russell's structuralist turn 217
Conclusion 223
10. Carnap's Lost World and Putnam's Paradox 225
Carnap: Der Logisdie Aujbau der Welt 225
Putnam's Paradox 229
Staying with Putnam: the Paradox dissolved 232
11. An Empiricist Structuralism 237
What could be an empiricist structuralism? 237
The fundamental remaining problem for a structuralist view
of science 239
The two main dangers for an empiricist 244
The problem in concrete setting revisited and dissolved 253
Return to our epistemological question 261
Part IV. Appearance and Reality
12. Appearance vs. Reality in the Sciences 269
Appearance and reality: the real and unreal problem 270
Appearance versus reality at the birth of modern science 270
Three putative completeness criteria 276
Appearance vs. reality: A deeper Criterion 280
Phenomena versus appearances 283
Three-faceted representation 288
13. Rejecting the Appearance from Reality Criterion 291
The supervenience of mind challenge 292
The Great Leibnizian Escape move 296
The quantum mechanics challenge 297
Exploring the case of quantum mechanics 300
Supervenience? 3°4
An empiricist view 3°4
XIV CONTENTS
APPENDICES
Appendix to CH i. Models and theories as representations 309
Appendix to CH 6. Quantum peculiarities: fuzzy observables 312
Appendix to CH 7. Surface models and their embeddings 315
Appendix to CH 13. Retreat (?) from The Scientific Image 317
Notes to Appendices 320
Bibliography 322
No to 345
Index 399 |
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