Journal Title
Title of Journal: J Gen Philos Sci
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Abbravation: Journal for General Philosophy of Science
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Tobias Schöttler
Publish Date: 2013/12/11
Volume: 44, Issue: 2, Pages: 401-404
Abstract
After a flood of images had started to appear in the sciences a flood of publications on the subject followed This is to say more and more articles monographs and anthologies are being published which address the epistemic functions of pictures in the sciences Especially the anthologies on the topic can be regarded as symptomatic of two different developments On the one hand they signal a growing interest in scientific visualisations On the other hand they react to the complexity or confusion of the debates At the same time these anthologies react to the coexisting epistemological interests insofar as they want to give an overview of the different approaches and discussions This is precisely one of the major merits of the companion Visualisation and Knowledge Visualisierung und Erkenntnis Above all the book is an excellent guide to the topic It offers an overview of the different kinds of visualisations and their usages on the one hand and of the corresponding
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