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Scientific representation : paradoxes of perspective

Title: Scientific representation : paradoxes of perspective / Bas C. van Fraassen.
Author: Van Fraassen, Bas C., 1941-
Publication: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Description

xiv, 408 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-397) and index.

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.

ISBN

9780199278220
0199278229

LCCN

2008300660

OCLC

ocn216938527
216938527
SCSB-14264489

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Princeton University Library