Sartori, Lorenzo (2024) Why we love pictures (for the wrong reasons): A lesson from the picture of a black hole. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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Abstract
In this paper, I first show that similarity accounts of scientific pictures fail with more realistic cases of scientific pictures. My primary case study is the picture of a black hole, from which I develop an interpretation-based account of picture representation analogous to how models represent: a picture represents a designated target system iff, once interpreted, it exemplifies properties that are then imputed to the target via a de-idealising function. Then, I show that justification of the inferences from pictures crucially depends on their causal mechanisms of production, in contrast with the standard justificatory strategies we employ for model inferences.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED) | ||||||
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Keywords: | pictures, scientific representation, justification, black hole | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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Depositing User: | Dr. Lorenzo Sartori | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 29 Oct 2024 12:57 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 29 Oct 2024 12:57 | ||||||
Item ID: | 24127 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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Date: | 2024 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24127 |
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