Understanding Perspectivism : Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Massimi, Michela.
Other Authors: McCoy, Casey D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Pragmatism, Perspectivism, and the Historicity of Science
  • 2 Explanation, Interdisciplinarity, and Perspectives
  • 3 What Is Perspectivism, and Does It Count as Realism?
  • 4 Realism and Explanatory Perspectives
  • 5 Universality and the Problem of Inconsistent Models
  • 6 Representationalism in Measurement Theory. Structuralism or Perspectivalism?
  • 7 Safe-and-Substantive Perspectivism
  • 8 Charting the Heraclitean Brain: Perspectivism and Simplification in Models of the Motor Cortex
  • 9 Cancer Modeling: The Advantages and Limitations of Multiple Perspectives
  • 10 Perspectives, Representation, and Integration
  • Contributors
  • Index.