Scientific representation: paradoxes of perspective
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
vii
List of Figures
ix
Introduction: the picture theory of science
ι
Part I. Representation
1. Representation of, Representation As n
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
3°
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
Indexicai
59
Pictorial perspective and the Art of Measuring
60
Perspective versus Descartes s frames of reference
66
Mapping and
perspectivai
self-location
75
What is in a map?
82
Visual perspective and the metaphor
84
Concluding empiricist postscript
86
Xii 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
m
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
Poincaré 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
Ш.
Structure and Perspective
8.
From the
Bädtheorie
of Science to Paradox
191
The
Bildtheorie
controversy
191
Representation: the problem for structuralism
204
CONTENTS
ХШ
д.
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 Logische Außau 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?
304
An empiricist view
304
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
Notes
345
Index
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