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| Author(s): |
Marcelo do Amaral Penna Forte
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2006-08-29 |
| Examining board members: |
José Carlos Pinto de Oliveira;
Caetano Ernesto Plastino;
Jézio Hernani Bomfim Gutierre;
Marcos Barco Barbosa de Oliveira;
Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzales
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| Advisor: | José Carlos Pinto de Oliveira |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation is concerned with the exposition of a naturalistic general framework for the study of visual representations as they are used in the scientific activity. It raises the question ci the role played by the visual representations in science. In order to do so, it argues for a functional analysis as a philosophical approach, suggests a suitable notion of representation, and describes science as a representational system. Finally, it concludes that visual representations can contribUte to the establishment, to the improvement, and to the revision of the network of similarities that constitutes science (AU) | |