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Scientific perspectivism / Ronald N. Giere.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giere, Ronald N.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Science--History.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 151 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- 1 Scientific Knowledge 1
- What Is the Problem?
- Objective Realism
- Constructivism
- Naturalism
- Perspectivism
- Retrospect
- 2 Color Vision 17
- Basic Color Science
- Color Subjectivism
- Color Objectivism
- Comparative Color Vision
- Color Perspectivism
- The Philosophy of Color
- 3 Scientific Observing 41
- Astronomy in Color
- Deep Space from the Perspective of the Hubble Telescope
- The Milky Way in Gamma Ray Perspectives
- Conclusions within Perspectives
- Imaging the Brain
- Instrumental Perspectives
- 4 Scientific Theorizing 59
- Representing
- Theories
- Laws of Nature
- Fitness
- Truth within a Perspective
- Perspectives and Paradigms
- Scientific Kinds
- Perspectival Realism
- The Contingency Thesis Revisited
- 5 Perspectival Knowledge and Distributed Cognition 96
- Distributed Cognition
- Scientific Observation as Distributed Cognition
- Models as Parts of Distributed Cognitive Systems
- Computation in Scientific Distributed Cognitive Systems
- Agency in Scientific Distributed Cognitive Systems
- Why Distributed Cognition?
- Distributed Cognition and Perspectival Knowledge.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [137]-146) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226292126
- OCLC:
- 63195906
- Publisher Number:
- 9780226292120
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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