TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mößner,Nicola
TI  - Visual Representations in Science: Concept and Epistemology
T2  - History and Philosophy of Technoscience
SN  - 9781138089938
PY  - 2018///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Society and Social Sciences
KW  - bicssc
KW  - astrophysics
KW  - epistemology
KW  - history
KW  - philosophy, science
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - Visual representations (photographs, diagrams, etc.) play crucial roles in scientific processes. They help, for example, to communicate research results and hypotheses to scientific peers as well as to the lay audience. In genuine research activities they are used as evidence or as surrogates for research objects which are otherwise cognitively inaccessible. Despite their important functional roles in scientific practices, philosophers of science have more or less neglected visual representations in their analyses of epistemic methods and tools of reasoning in science. This book is meant to fill this gap. It presents a detailed investigation into central conceptual issues and into the epistemology of visual representations in science
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29621
ER  -