Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2009

Publication Title

Philosophy of Science

Department

Department of Philosophy

Abstract

Problems concerning scientists’ uses of representations have received quite a bit of attention recently. The focus has been on how such representations get their contents and on just what those contents are. Less attention has been paid to what makes certain kinds of scientific representations different from one another and thus well suited to this or that epistemic end. This article considers the latter question with particular focus on the distinction between images and graphs on the one hand and descriptions and related representations on the other.

DOI

10.1086/651321

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