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Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective | 
 enlarge | Author: Bas C. Van Fraassen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
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Sales Rank: 527587
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 0199278229
Dewey Decimal Number: 501
EAN: 9780199278220
ASIN: 0199278229
Publication Date: October 15, 2008
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Bas C. van Fraassen presents an original exploration of how we represent the world. Science represents natural phenomena by means of theories, as well as in many concrete ways by such means as pictures, graphs, table-top models, and computer simulations. Scientific Representation begins with an inquiry into the nature of representation in general, drawing on such diverse sources as Plato's dialogues, the development of perspectival drawing in the Renaissance, and the geometric styles of modelling in modern physics. Starting with Mach's and Poincare's analyses of measurement and the "problem of coordination," van Fraassen then presents a view of measurement outcomes as representations. With respect to the theories of contemporary science he defends an empiricist structuralist version of the "picture theory" of science, through an inquiry into the paradoxes that came to light in twentieth-century philosophies of science. Van Fraassen concludes with an analysis of the complex relationship between appearance and reality in the scientific world-picture.
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