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Similarity,Topology,and Physical Significance in Relativity Theory
similarity topology physical significance general relativity models contextualism
2016/6/13
Stephen Hawking, among others, has proposed that the topological stability of a property of spacetime is a necessary condition for it to be physically significant. What counts as stable, however, depe...
Similarity Assessments,Spacetime,and the Gravitational Field:What Does the Metric Tensor Represent in General Relativity?
general relativity metric tensor similarity-based reasoning
2016/5/30
In this paper I explore the dialectics underlying the choice between a geometrical and a field interpretation of the metric tensor gab in general relativity. My aim is to examine the role of a specifi...
From Similarity to Homomorphism: Toward a Pragmatic Account of Representation in Art and Science, 1880-1914
Representative practices art and science iconicity homomorphism
2009/11/18
The years 1880-1914 were a time of intense experimentation in the visual arts. Representative conventions became variable, and artists deliberately departed from a concept of depiction considered as p...
From Similarity to Homomorphism: Toward a Pragmatic Account of Representation in Art and Science, 1880-1914
Representative practices art science iconicity
2009/9/11
The years 1880-1914 were a time of intense experimentation in the visual arts. Representative conventions became variable, and artists deliberately departed from a concept of depiction considered as p...
Similarity and Dimensional Analysis（forthcoming entry in Handbook of Philosophy of Science，Elsevier）
Similarity Models Physical Similarity Dimensions Dimensionless
2009/4/17
The topic of this Handbook entry is the relationship between similarity and dimensional analysis, and some of the philosophical issues involved in understanding and making use of that relationship. Di...
Scientific Representation: Against Similarity and Isomorphism
representation idealization models realism structuralism
2008/4/22
I argue against theories that attempt to reduce scientific representation to similarity or isomorphism. These reductive theories aim to radically naturalise the notion of representation, since they tr...