Visual Cognition: Where Cognition and Culture Meet.

Case studies of diverse scientific fields show how scientists use a range of resources to generate new interpretative models and to establish their plausibility as explanations of a domain. They accomplish this by manipulating imagistic representations in particular ways. I show that scientists in d...

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Published in:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 73; no. 5; pp. 688 - 699
Main Author:	Gooding, David C.
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Dec2006
Subjects:	Representation (Philosophy) Simulation methods & models Models & modelmaking Inference (Logic) Visualization Cognition
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost