Mapping Reality

In Science, truth, and democracy. New York: Oxford University Press (2001)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

The theme of Chapter 4 is developed and illustrated by considering the example of maps. Maps are partly objective in that there are criteria of accurate representation; they are also partly dependent on our concerns in the choice of features of the terrain that are to be included.

Categories

Add categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1093/0195145836.003.0005

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive

    This entry is not archived by us. If you are the author and have permission from the publisher, we recommend that you archive it. Many publishers automatically grant permission to authors to archive pre-prints. By uploading a copy of your work, you will enable us to better index it, making it easier to find.

    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 103,486

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Mapping Reality: An Evolutionary Realist Methodology for the Natural and Social Sciences.Jane Azevedo - 1997 - State University of New York Press.
Maps and Models.Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther - forthcoming - In Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling. London, UK:
The scientific dimensions of social knowledge and their distant echoes in 20th-century American philosophy of science.Philip Mirowski - 2004 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 35 (2):283-326.
The Proper Ends of Science: Philip Kitcher, Science, and the Good.Jeremy Simon - 2006 - Philosophy of Science 73 (2):194-214.
Science Mapping and Science Maps.Eugenio Petrovich - 2022 - Knowledge Organization 48 (7-8):535-562.
The Political Philosophy of Science Policy.Mark B. Brown - 2004 - Minerva 42 (1):77-95.
Science, truth, and democracy. [REVIEW]M. Ruse - 2003 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (2):280 – 281.
Philip Kitcher. Science, Truth, and Democracy. xiii + 256 pp., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. $27.50.Mario Bunge - 2005 - Isis 96 (4):679-680.
Using and understanding maps.Stephen Butterfill - unknown
A Euthyphronic Problem for Kitcher’s Epistemology of Science.Jeffrey W. Roland - 2009 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 47 (2):205-223.

Analytics

Added to PP
2016-10-25

Downloads
8 (#1,622,734)

6 months
6 (#622,431)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Philip Kitcher
Columbia University

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references