Beyond mimesis and convention [Texte imprimé] : representation in art and science / edited by Roman Frigg and Matthew C. Hunter

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Telling instances / Catherine Z. Elgin -- Models : parables v fables / Nancy Cartwright -- Truth and representation in science : two inspirations from art / Anjan Chakravartty -- Learning through fictional narratives in art and science / David Davies -- Models as make-believe / Adam Toon -- Fiction and scientific representation / Roman Frigg -- Fictional entities, theoretical models and figurative truth / Manuel García-Carpintero -- Visual practices across the university / James Elkins -- Experiment, theory, representation : Robert Hooke's material models / Matthew C. Hunter -- Lost in space : consciousness and experiment in the work of Irwin and Turrell / Dawna Schuld -- Art and neuroscience / John Hyman

"'Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science' is motivated by the conviction that we students of the sciences and arts are best served by confronting our mutual impasse and by recognizing the shared concerns that have necessitated our covert acts of kleptomania. Drawing leading contributors from the philosophy of science, the philosophy of literature, art history and visual studies, our volume takes its brief from our title. That is, these essays aim to put the evidence of science and of art to work in thinking about representation by offering third (or fourth, or fifth) ways beyond mimesis and convention. In so doing, our contributors explore a range of topics-fictionalism, exemplification, neuroaesthetics, approximate truth-that build upon and depart from ongoing conversations in philosophy of science and studies of visual art in ways that will be of interest to both interpretive communities. To put these contributions into context, the remainder of this introduction aims to survey how our communities have discretely arrived at a place wherein the perhaps-surprising collaboration between philosophy of science and art history has become not only salubrious, but a matter of necessity"--Provided by publisher