Bas C. van Fraassen presents an original exploration of how we represent the world. He investigates the nature of representation in both science and art; he defends a distinctive position in contemporary philosophy of science; and heilluminates the complex relationship between appearance and reality. INDICE: Preface; Introduction: the 'picture theory of science'; PART ONE: REPRESENTATION; 1.1: Representation of, Representation as; 1.2: Imaging, Picturing, and Scaling; 1.3: Pictorial Perspective and the Indexical; PART TWO. WINDOWS, ENGINES, AND MEASUREMENT; 2.1: A Window on the Invisible World (?); 2.2: The Problem of Coordination; 2.3: Measurement as Representation (1) The Physical Correlate; 2.4: Measurement as Representation (2) Information; PART THREE. STRUCTURE AND PERSPECTIVE; 3.1: From the Bildtheorie of science to paradox; 3.2: The Longest Journey: Bertrand Russell; 3.3: Carnap's Lost World and Putnam's Paradox; 3.4: An Empiricist Structuralism; PART FOUR. APPEARANCE AND REALITY; 4.1: Appearance vs. Reality in the Sciences; 4.2: Rejecting the Appearance from Reality Criterion; APPENDICES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES
- ISBN: 978-0-19-927823-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 424
- Fecha Publicación: 22/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés