02112namaa2200433uu 4500001001100000003000600011005001700017006001900034007001500053008003500068014002200103020001800125035002200143040001700165041000800182042000700190072001300197100002700210245006400237260004800301300003100349336002600380337002600406338003600432490004800468506005100516520074900567540005101316546000801367650003901375650003901414653001701453653001701470653001201487653001501499653001201514700002701526856012501553oapen29621oapen20251217011859.0a||||fo|||||||||0|cr|mn|---annan240424s2018a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d  a1051778720bOCoLC  a9781138089938  a(OCoLC)1051778720  aoapencoapen0 aeng  adc 7aJ2thema1 aMößner, Nicola4edt10aVisual Representations in SciencebConcept and Epistemology  bTaylor & FrancisbRoutledge [Imprint]c2018  a1 online resource (372 p.)  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aHistory and Philosophy of Technosciencev130 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.  aOpen licence0https://oapen.org/article/rights  aeng 7aSociety & social sciences.2bicssc 7aSociety and Social Sciences2thema  aastrophysics  aepistemology  ahistory  aphilosophy  ascience1 aMößner, Nicola4aut40uhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29621zFree-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication70