Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective
Preface Introduction: the 'picture theory of science' PART ONE: REPRESENTATION 1.1 Representation of, Representation as 1.2 Imaging, Picturing, and Scaling 1.3 Pictorial Perspective and the Indexical PART TWO. WINDOWS, ENGINES, AND MEASUREMENT 2.1 A Window on the Invisible World (?) 2.2 The Problem of Coordination 2.3 Measurement as Representation (1) The Physical Correlate 2.4 Measurement as Representation (2) Information PART THREE. STRUCTURE AND PERSPECTIVE 3.1 From the Bildtheorie of science to paradox 3.2 The Longest Journey: Bertrand Russell 3.3 Carnap's Lost World and Putnam's Paradox 3.4 An Empiricist Structuralism PART FOUR. APPEARANCE AND REALITY 4.1 Appearance vs. Reality in the Sciences 4.2 Rejecting the Appearance from Reality Criterion APPENDICES BIBLIOGRAPHY NOTES