01984namaa2200397uu 4500 doab30939 oapen 20260305123948.0 m o d cr|mn|---annan 210210s2018 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d 9781138089938 oapen oapen eng dc J bicssc Mößner, Nicola aut Visual Representations in Science Concept and Epistemology Taylor & Francis 2018 1 online resource (372 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier History and Philosophy of Technoscience Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star 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. All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Society & social sciences bicssc astrophysics epistemology history philosophy, science DOAB Library. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30939 0 Free-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication 92827 92827