Readership: Advanced students and scholars of philosophy; scientists interested in philosophy.
Bas C. van Fraassen, Princeton University and San Francisco State University
"Densely argued, erudite and rich in examples from both art and science... Scientific Representation is both provocative and subtle, and will appeal to a more general readership as well as the science studies aficionado. It takes us beyond the issue of representation in science to offer one of the most well thought-out representations of science currently available." - Steven French, Times Higher Education
"empiricist structuralism seems to be even more sophisticated than constructive empiricism... [it] is likely to prove an even more formiddable opponent for scientific realists of all stripes and to be at the centre of the debate for a long time to come." - Gabriele Contessa, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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
