When maps become the world / Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winther, Rasmus, author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--Philosophy.

Cartography.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Abstraction.

Reification.

Mental representation.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.) : 10 color plates, 37 halftones

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our representations seduce and persuade; they build and destroy. They are the ultimate record of empires and of our evolving comprehension of our world. This volume is about the promises and perils of map thinking.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction: Why Maps?

2. Theory Is to World as Map Is to Territory

3. From Abstraction to Ontologizing

4. Long Live Contextual Objectivity!

5. Projecting Maps into Our Worlds

6. Mapping Space

7. Mapping Ourselves

8. Mapping Genetics

9. Map Thinking Science and Philosophy

Appendix: Cognitive Map Exercise

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2020).

ISBN:

9780226674865

022667486X

OCLC:

1159167406