02170namaa2200457uu 4500 oapen29621 oapen 20251217011859.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240424s2018a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 1051778720 OCoLC 9781138089938 (OCoLC)1051778720 oapen oapen eng dc J thema Mößner, Nicola edt Visual Representations in Science Concept and Epistemology Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2018 1 online resource (372 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier History and Philosophy of Technoscience 13 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. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Society & social sciences. bicssc Society and Social Sciences thema astrophysics epistemology history philosophy science Mößner, Nicola aut OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29621 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 37650 37650