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Representation In Scientific Practice
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Author : Michael E. Lynch
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1990-10-02
Representation In Scientific Practice written by Michael E. Lynch and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-10-02 with Social Science categories.
The essays in this book provide an excellent introduction to the means by which scientists convey their ideas. While diverse in their subject matter, the essays are unified in asserting that scientists compose and use particular representations in contextually organized and contextually sensitive ways, and that these representations - particularly visual displays such as graphs, diagrams, photographs, and drawings - depend for their meaning on the complex activities in which they are situated. The topics include sociological orientations to representational practice, representation and the realist-constructivist controversy, the fixation of evidence, time and documents in researcher interaction, selection and mathematization in the visual documentation of objects in the life sciences, the use of illustrations in texts (E.0. Wilson's Sociobiology, a field guide to the birds), representing practice in cognitive science, the iconography of scientific texts, and semiotic analysis of scientific, representation. Contributors K. Amann, Ronald Amerine, Françoise Bastide, Jack Bilmes, K. Knorr, Bruno Latour, John Law, Michael Lynch, Greg Meyers, Lucy A. Suchman, Paul Tibbetts, Steve Woolgar, and Steven Yearley.
Representation In Scientific Practice Revisited
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Author : Catelijne Coopmans
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2014-01-03
Representation In Scientific Practice Revisited written by Catelijne Coopmans and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-03 with Social Science categories.
A fresh approach to visualization practices in the sciences that considers novel forms of imaging technology and draws on recent theoretical perspectives on representation. Representation in Scientific Practice, published by the MIT Press in 1990, helped coalesce a long-standing interest in scientific visualization among historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science and remains a touchstone for current investigations in science and technology studies. This volume revisits the topic, taking into account both the changing conceptual landscape of STS and the emergence of new imaging technologies in scientific practice. It offers cutting-edge research on a broad array of fields that study information as well as short reflections on the evolution of the field by leading scholars, including some of the contributors to the 1990 volume. The essays consider the ways in which viewing experiences are crafted in the digital era; the embodied nature of work with digital technologies; the constitutive role of materials and technologies—from chalkboards to brain scans—in the production of new scientific knowledge; the metaphors and images mobilized by communities of practice; and the status and significance of scientific imagery in professional and popular culture. Contributors Morana Alač, Michael Barany, Anne Beaulieu, Annamaria Carusi, Catelijne Coopmans, Lorraine Daston, Sarah de Rijcke, Joseph Dumit, Emma Frow, Yann Giraud, Aud Sissel Hoel, Martin Kemp, Bruno Latour, John Law, Michael Lynch, Donald MacKenzie, Cyrus Mody, Natasha Myers, Rachel Prentice, Arie Rip, Martin Ruivenkamp, Lucy Suchman, Janet Vertesi, Steve Woolgar
Representation In Scientific Practice
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Author : Michael Lynch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Representation In Scientific Practice written by Michael Lynch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
Model Based Representation In Scientific Practice
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Author : Axel Gelfert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
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Part Special Issue Model Based Representation In Scientific Practice
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Author : Axel Gelfert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Part Special Issue Model Based Representation In Scientific Practice written by Axel Gelfert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Scientific Representation In Practice
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Author : Julia Sánchez Dorado
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
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Scientific Representation In Practice
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Author : Julia Sánchez-Dorado
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Scientific Representation In Practice written by Julia Sánchez-Dorado and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
The thesis proposes an account of the means of scientific representation focused on similarity, or more specifically, on the notion of "creative similarity" . I first distinguish between two different questions regarding the problem of representation: the question about the constituents and the question about the means of representation (following Suárez 2003; van Fraassen 2008). I argue that, although similarity is not a good candidate for constituent of representation, it can satisfactorily answer the question about the means of representation if adequately characterized. To motivate this position, I dispute the main arguments offered against similarity as means of representation, namely the arguments from variety, vagueness, and misrepresentation, and contend that similarity plays a central epistemic role in practices of representing in science. The study of the role of similarity in scientific practice, I argue, requires the analysis of the uses of judgments of similarity in the construction of scientific models. I examine the cases of the Mississippi Basin Model and the San Francisco Bay Model to illustrate how judgments of similarity are directly involved in the production of epistemically fruitful models. Informed by the practical investigation developed throughout the thesis, I finally outline what I call the creative similarity account of the means of representation. The notion of "creative similarity" helps to capture the way in which similarity, as means of representation, intervenes in actual practices of representing, namely, in the form of a productive interplay of judgments of similarity and distortions (i.e. idealizations, abstractions, simplifications), which is employed by resourceful agents with the aim of understanding aspects of the natural world.
Visual Cultures Of Science
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Author : Luc Pauwels
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2006
Visual Cultures Of Science written by Luc Pauwels and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
A new collection explores the complex role of visual representation in science.
Constructing Representations To Learn In Science
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Author : Russell Tytler
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-04-20
Constructing Representations To Learn In Science written by Russell Tytler and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-20 with Education categories.
Constructing Representations to Learn in Science Current research into student learning in science has shifted attention from the traditional cognitivist perspectives of conceptual change to socio-cultural and semiotic perspectives that characterize learning in terms of induction into disciplinary literacy practices. This book builds on recent interest in the role of representations in learning to argue for a pedagogical practice based on students actively generating and exploring representations. The book describes a sustained inquiry in which the authors worked with primary and secondary teachers of science, on key topics identified as problematic in the research literature. Data from classroom video, teacher interviews and student artifacts were used to develop and validate a set of pedagogical principles and explore student learning and teacher change issues. The authors argue the theoretical and practical case for a representational focus. The pedagogical approach is illustrated and explored in terms of the role of representation to support quality student learning in science. Separate chapters address the implications of this perspective and practice for structuring sequences around different concepts, reasoning and inquiry in science, models and model based reasoning, the nature of concepts and learning, teacher change, and assessment. The authors argue that this representational focus leads to significantly enhanced student learning, and has the effect of offering new and productive perspectives and approaches for a number of contemporary strands of thinking in science education including conceptual change, inquiry, scientific literacy, and a focus on the epistemic nature of science.
Models As Make Believe
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Author : Adam Toon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-10-17
Models As Make Believe written by Adam Toon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-17 with Science categories.
Scientists often try to understand the world by building simplified and idealised models of it. Adam Toon develops a new approach to scientific models by comparing them to the dolls and toy trucks of children's imaginative games, and offers a unified framework to solve difficult metaphysical problems and help to make sense of scientific practice.