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Scientific perspectivism / Ronald N. Giere.

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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

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