Titlebook: Beyond Mimesis and Convention; Representation in Ar Roman Frigg,Matthew Hunter Book 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Art and

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Fictional Entities, Theoretical Models and Figurative Truth,llowing three claims: (i) Scientific theories should be interpreted “at face value”. If the theory includes the sentence “there are quarks”, it should be understood as making the same kind of claim we make when we say “there are cans of beer in the refrigerator”: there is no reinterpretation. (ii) S

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Visual Practices Across the University,t the University College Cork in Ireland. Visual studies, film studies, and art history were expanding, and the time seemed right for a university-wide center for the study of images. I was interested in finding out who at the university was engaged with images, so I sent an email to all the faculty

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,Experiment, Theory, Representation: Robert Hooke’s Material Models,en oversaw the engraving of .’s plates, images that amount to little less than revelations from beneath the range of human vision (Fig. 1). In bristling detail, molds flower into putrid bloom, crystals protrude like warts from mineral skins and, for the first time in history, cells are brought to th

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Truth and Representation in Science: Two Inspirations from Art,zation". Second, I argue that these practices exemplify different conventions of representation, and that for each, the conditions of approximation relevant to explicating the concept of approximate truth must be understood differently. The concept is thus heterogeneous; approximate truth is a virtu

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Learning Through Fictional Narratives in Art and Science,, one heavy [H] and one light [L], to the top of a high tower. We strap the bodies together and drop the resulting object [H+L] from the tower. The Aristotelean is then committed to two contradictory claims. First, since [H+L] is heavier than [H], it should fall faster than H. On the other hand, sin

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Lost in Space: Consciousness and Experiment in the Work of Irwin and Turrell,tention. Most startling were the effects upon leaving the chamber when the body re-adjusted to the overwhelming array of stimuli in daily life and the world became intensely bright, loud and noticeable.

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Book 2010nce and art, these representational concerns have been perceived as different in kind and asobjects of separate intellectual traditions. Scientific modeling and theorizing have been topics of heated debate in twentieth century philosophy of science in the analytic tradition, while representation of