dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Visser, A. | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Muller, F.A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Taylor, S.D. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-11-24T18:01:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-11-24T18:01:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/30122 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this thesis, I consider contemporary conceptualisations of both (scientific) representation and information, and find that all are inadequate in virtue of endorsing a dualism between conceptualisation 'in' and 'about' the world. Therefore, I first reconceptualise representation as an enacted structural relationship between agent(s), object(s) or artefact(s), and world. Then I differentiated scientific representation from other kinds of representation by reference to the aim of giving the nearest approximation of reality possible. I move on to give a reconceptualisation of information as an enacted structural relationship between agent(s), object(s) or artefact(s), and world. Before arguing that we should synthesise our concepts of representation and information into one concept: informational representation. Finally, I argue that we can differentiate informational scientific representation from other kinds of information representation. And I conclude by discussing perspectivism in relation to questions of truth in the philosophy of science and questions of the nature of information in the philosophy of information. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 1206233 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | Scientific Representation and Information | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | Scientific Representation, Representation, Information, Enactivism, Perspectivism, Conceptual Analysis | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Philosophy | |