| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 408 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Representation of, representation as -- Imaging, picturing, and scaling -- Pictorial perspective and the indexical -- A window on the invisible world -- The problem of coordination -- Measurement as representation: 1. The physical correlate -- Measurement as representation: 2. Information -- From the bildtheorie of science to paradox -- The longest journey: Bertrand Russell -- Carnap's lost world and Putnam's paradox -- An empiricist structuralism -- Appearance vs. reality in the sciences -- Rejecting the appearance from reality criterion |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-397) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy.
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Science.
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Philosophy
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Science
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philosophy.
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sciences (philosophy)
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science (modern discipline)
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Science
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Philosophy
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Science -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199278220 |
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0199278229 |
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0191557307 |
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9780191557309 |
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9780191707926 |
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0191707929 |
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