This volume explores the roles and uses of abstraction in scientific and artistic practice. The essays draw on the shared premise that abstraction is a rich and generative process, not reducible to the mere omission of details in a representation.
This volume explores the roles and uses of abstraction in scientific and artistic practice. The essays draw on the shared premise that abstraction is a rich and generative process, not reducible to the mere omission of details in a representation.
Chiara Ambrosio is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL. Her research focuses on representation in science and art, nineteenth- and twentieth-century visual and material culture, and American Pragmatism, particularly the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce. Julia Sánchez-Dorado is Postdoctoral Researcher in the area of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sevilla (Spain), and a fellow at the ICI Berlin (Germany). She received a PhD from University College London in 2019. Her work focuses on the problem of representation in science and art, modelling practices in the geosciences, and the epistemic value of creativity.
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Introduction: Abstraction in Science and Art Chiara Ambrosio and Julia Sánchez-Dorado 1. Selective Disregard Catherine Elgin 2. How abstract images have aboutness: an overview Elisa Caldarola 3. Abstraction in Photography, Revisited Diarmuid Costello 4. Bertrand Russell, Albert Barnes, and the place of aesthetics in the History of Western Philosophy C. Oliver O'Donnell 5. Abstracting as Manipulating Aspectual Structure: Jane Richardson's Ribbon Drawings of Proteins Chiara Ambrosio and Grant Fisher 6. Moving Targets and Models of Nothing: A New Sense of Abstraction for Philosophy of Science Michael T. Stuart and Anatolii Kozlov 7. The novel naturalness of abstract space Julia Sánchez-Dorado 8. Maxwell / Mondrian: Abstraction as a Process in Science and Art Mauricio Suárez 9. Abstraction as Material Translation: An Artistic Reflection of (Re)Presentation Tarja Knuuttila, Hanna Johansson, and Natalia Carrillo 10. What If? Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther and Marie Raffn
Introduction: Abstraction in Science and Art Chiara Ambrosio and Julia Sánchez-Dorado 1. Selective Disregard Catherine Elgin 2. How abstract images have aboutness: an overview Elisa Caldarola 3. Abstraction in Photography, Revisited Diarmuid Costello 4. Bertrand Russell, Albert Barnes, and the place of aesthetics in the History of Western Philosophy C. Oliver O'Donnell 5. Abstracting as Manipulating Aspectual Structure: Jane Richardson's Ribbon Drawings of Proteins Chiara Ambrosio and Grant Fisher 6. Moving Targets and Models of Nothing: A New Sense of Abstraction for Philosophy of Science Michael T. Stuart and Anatolii Kozlov 7. The novel naturalness of abstract space Julia Sánchez-Dorado 8. Maxwell / Mondrian: Abstraction as a Process in Science and Art Mauricio Suárez 9. Abstraction as Material Translation: An Artistic Reflection of (Re)Presentation Tarja Knuuttila, Hanna Johansson, and Natalia Carrillo 10. What If? Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther and Marie Raffn
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