Beyond Mimesis and Convention - Representation in Art and Science (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol 262)

Preface

Contents

Contributors

About the Authors

Introduction

From Science to Art

From Art to Science

Problems and Prospects

References

Telling Instances

Representation

Representation As

Exemplification

Fiction

Epistemic Access

Problems Evaded

Objectivity

References

Models: Parables v Fables

How Fables and Parables Help Us Understand the Use of Models: A Short Survey of This Paper

The Problem of Unrealistic Assumptions, Round 1: Valid Arguments but False Premises

The Plan

Solution, Round 1: Galilean Thought Experiments

The Problem of Unrealistic Assumptions, Round 2: Overconstraint

Fables and Models, Their Morals and Lessons

Solution, Round 3: From Falsehood to Truth via Abstraction

The Problem of Unrealistic Assumptions, Round 3: Not Fables but Parables

Conclusion

References

Truth and Representation in Science: Two Inspirations from Art

Varieties of Truth in Art and Science

Preliminaries on Approximate Truth

Truth in the Context of Abstraction and Idealization

Denotation in Art, Reference in Science

Representations and Practice as Products and Production

References

Learning Through Fictional Narratives in Art and Science

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References

Models as Make-Believe

Representation in Modeling

The Problem of Scientific Representation

Misrepresentation

Does the Problem Exist?

Stipulation and Salt Shakers

Models as Make-Believe

Walton's Theory: Props and Games

Make-Believe and Model-Representation

Make-Believe and Stipulation

Make-Believe, Misrepresentation and Realism

Models and Works of Fiction

Models Without Actual Objects

The Variety of Models Without Actual Objects

Existing Accounts of Scientific Representation and Models Without Actual Objects

Models as Make-Believe and Models Without Actual Objects

Conclusion

References

Fiction and Scientific Representation

Introduction

Model-Systems and Fiction

Strictures on Structures

Model-Systems and Imagination

The Anatomy of Scientific Modeling

A First Stab at T-Representation

Re-reading the Newtonian Model of the SunEarth System

Conclusion

References

Fictional Entities, Theoretical Models and Figurative Truth

Preamble

Apparent Reference to Fictional Characters

Genuine vs. Figurative Reference

Scientific Models as Fictions

Concluding Afterthought: Carnapian Associations

References

Visual Practices Across the University

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The Plaque Assay

Transmission Electron Microscopy

Gene Mapping

Electrophoresis

Immunogold Electron Microscopy

Other Kinds of Pictures

Conclusions

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References

Experiment, Theory, Representation: Robert Hookes Material Models

Gross Similitudes

In Some Things Analogous to the One, and Somewhat to the Other, Though not Exactly the Same with Either

It Behove Them, Who Professe the Knowledge of Nature or Reason, Rightly to Apprehend the Severall Waies Whereby They may be Expressed

References

Lost in Space: Consciousness and Experiment in the Work of Irwin and Turrell

Entering the Black Box: Irwin, Turrell and the Anechoic Chamber

White Cube and Black Box: Exposing the Explanatory Gap in Modernism and Behaviorism

Conclusion

References

Art and Neuroscience

References

Index