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Beyond Mimesis and Convention - Representation in Art and Science
von: Roman Frigg, Matthew Hunter
Springer-Verlag, 2010
ISBN: 9789048138517 , 266 Seiten
Format: PDF, OL
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Preis: 149,79 EUR
Preface
6
Contents
7
Contributors
8
About the Authors
9
Introduction
12
From Science to Art
13
From Art to Science
18
Problems and Prospects
23
References
24
Telling Instances
28
Representation
29
Representation As
30
Exemplification
32
Fiction
34
Epistemic Access
36
Problems Evaded
39
Objectivity
40
References
43
Models: Parables v Fables
45
How Fables and Parables Help Us Understand the Use of Models: A Short Survey of This Paper
45
The Problem of Unrealistic Assumptions, Round 1: Valid Arguments but False Premises
48
The Plan
48
Solution, Round 1: Galilean Thought Experiments
49
The Problem of Unrealistic Assumptions, Round 2: Overconstraint
50
Fables and Models, Their Morals and Lessons
51
Solution, Round 3: From Falsehood to Truth via Abstraction
53
The Problem of Unrealistic Assumptions, Round 3: Not Fables but Parables
55
Conclusion
56
References
56
Truth and Representation in Science: Two Inspirations from Art
58
Varieties of Truth in Art and Science
58
Preliminaries on Approximate Truth
60
Truth in the Context of Abstraction and Idealization
63
Denotation in Art, Reference in Science
65
Representations and Practice as Products and Production
70
References
74
Learning Through Fictional Narratives in Art and Science
76
I
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II
81
III
86
IV
89
References
93
Models as Make-Believe
95
Representation in Modeling
95
The Problem of Scientific Representation
95
Misrepresentation
98
Does the Problem Exist?
99
Stipulation and Salt Shakers
102
Models as Make-Believe
104
Walton's Theory: Props and Games
104
Make-Believe and Model-Representation
106
Make-Believe and Stipulation
109
Make-Believe, Misrepresentation and Realism
110
Models and Works of Fiction
111
Models Without Actual Objects
112
The Variety of Models Without Actual Objects
112
Existing Accounts of Scientific Representation and Models Without Actual Objects
116
Models as Make-Believe and Models Without Actual Objects
118
Conclusion
119
References
120
Fiction and Scientific Representation
121
Introduction
121
Model-Systems and Fiction
124
Strictures on Structures
127
Model-Systems and Imagination
135
The Anatomy of Scientific Modeling
145
A First Stab at T-Representation
149
Re-reading the Newtonian Model of the SunEarth System
156
Conclusion
159
References
160
Fictional Entities, Theoretical Models and Figurative Truth
163
Preamble
163
Apparent Reference to Fictional Characters
164
Genuine vs. Figurative Reference
173
Scientific Models as Fictions
181
Concluding Afterthought: Carnapian Associations
187
References
190
Visual Practices Across the University
193
1
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2
204
3
207
The Plaque Assay
207
Transmission Electron Microscopy
208
Gene Mapping
209
Electrophoresis
209
Immunogold Electron Microscopy
212
Other Kinds of Pictures
213
Conclusions
213
*
214
References
215
Experiment, Theory, Representation: Robert Hookes Material Models
217
Gross Similitudes
223
In Some Things Analogous to the One, and Somewhat to the Other, Though not Exactly the Same with Either
232
It Behove Them, Who Professe the Knowledge of Nature or Reason, Rightly to Apprehend the Severall Waies Whereby They may be Expressed
237
References
240
Lost in Space: Consciousness and Experiment in the Work of Irwin and Turrell
244
Entering the Black Box: Irwin, Turrell and the Anechoic Chamber
248
White Cube and Black Box: Exposing the Explanatory Gap in Modernism and Behaviorism
256
Conclusion
264
References
265
Art and Neuroscience
268
References
284
Index
285
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