TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marianne Richter
PY  - 2014
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653031669
TI  - Scientific Visualisation
T2  - Epistemic Weight and Surpluses
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-03166-9
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1047676
N2  - Much of the recent confidence in the future of science and technology stems from advances in scientific visualisation. But is it right to assume that visual – and especially pictorial – measures carry special epistemic weight in the context of scientific reasoning? Do pictorial approaches have any surpluses, compared to other semiotic types? This book delves into these issues from the point of view of the philosophy of science. New examples from the field of scientific visualisation are introduced in order to account for the epistemic weight and surpluses of syntactically dense – pictorial – symbol systems.
KW  - symbolic systems, Symbolsysteme, Wissenschaftliche Visualisierung, Bildmittel, Picture-based reasoning
LA  - English
ER  -