Scientific Perspectivism
- Contents
- Review Quotes

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Scientific Knowledge
What Is the Problem?
Objective Realism
Constructivism
Naturalism
Perspectivism
Retrospect
2. Color Vision
Introduction
Basic Color Science
Color Subjectivism
Color Objectivism
Comparative Color Vision
Color Perspectivism
The Philosophy of Color
A Final Question
3. Scientific Observing
Introduction
Astronomy in Color
Deep Space from the Perspective of the Hubble Telescope
The Milky Way in Gamma Ray Perspectives
Conclusions within Perspectives
Imaging the Brain
Instrumental Perspectives
4. Scientific Theorizing
Introduction
Representing
Theories
Laws of Nature
Fitness
Maps
Truth within a Perspective
Perspectives and Paradigms
Scientific Kinds
Perspectival Realism
The Contingency Thesis Revisited
5. Perspectival Knowledge and Distributed Cognition
Introduction
Distributed Cognition
Scientific Observation as Distributed Cognition
Models as Parts of Distributed Cognitive Systems
Computation in Scientific Distributed Cognitive Systems
Agency in Scientific Distributed Cognitive Systems
Why Distributed Cognition?
Distributed Cognition and Perspectival Knowledge
Notes
References
Index
History: History of Ideas
Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind
Physical Sciences: History and Philosophy of Physical Sciences
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