Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective

By Martin Thomson-Jones. 2011

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, History and Philosophy of Science

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• How do models give us knowledge? The case of Carnot’s ideal heat engine (2011, background): “Rather unsurprisingly, then, what was previously presented as an analysis of the representational relationship, i.e., isomorphism (van Fraassen 2008) or similarity (Giere 2010), is now suggested as a success criterion.”