01926namaa2200373uu 4500001001000000003000600010005001700016006001900033007001500052008004100067020001800108040001700126041000800143042000700151072001400158720002700172245006400199260002700263300003100290336002600321337002600347338003600373490004400409506005100453520074900504540006301253546001201316650003801328653001701366653001701383653001201400653002401412856011601436doab30939oapen20260305123948.0m     o  d        cr|mn|---annan210210s2018    xx |||||o     ||| 0|eng d  a9781138089938  aoapencoapen0 aeng  adc 7aJ2bicssc1 aMößner, Nicola4aut00aVisual Representations in SciencebConcept and Epistemology  bTaylor & Francisc2018  a1 online resource (372 p.)  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aHistory and Philosophy of Technoscience0 aFree-to-readfUnrestricted online access2star  aVisual 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.  aAll rights reserveduhttp://oapen.org/content/about-rights  aEnglish 7aSociety & social sciences2bicssc  aastrophysics  aepistemology  ahistory  aphilosophy, science40uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/3093970zFree-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication