Visual representations in science: concept and epistemology

"Visual representations (photographs, diagrams, etc.) play crucial roles in scientific processes. They help, for example, to communicate research results and hypotheses to scientific peers as well as to the lay audience. In genuine research activities they are used as evidence or as surrogates...

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Main Author: Mössner, Nicola (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2018
Series:History and philosophy of technoscience
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"Visual representations (photographs, diagrams, etc.) play crucial roles in scientific processes. They help, for example, to communicate research results and hypotheses to scientific peers as well as to the lay audience. In genuine research activities they are used as evidence or as surrogates for research objects which are otherwise cognitively inaccessible. Despite their important functional roles in scientific practices, philosophers of science have more or less neglected visual representations in their analyses of epistemic methods and tools of reasoning in science. This book is meant to fill this gap. It presents a detailed investigation into central conceptual issues and into the epistemology of visual representations in science."--
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 371 pages)
ISBN:9781315108902
1315108909
9781351611459
1351611453
9781351611442
1351611445
9781351611435
1351611437

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