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Abstraction in Science and Art: Philosophical Perspectives

By Chiara Ambrosio (Editor), Julia Sánchez-Dorado (Editor)
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By Chiara Ambrosio (Editor), Julia Sánchez-Dorado (Editor)
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This volume explores the roles and uses of abstraction in scientific and artistic practice. Conceived as an interdisciplinary dialogue between experts across histories and philosophies of art and science, this collection of essays draws on the shared premise that abstraction is a rich and generative process, not reducible to the mere omission of details in a representation.

When scientists attempt to make sense of complex natural phenomena, they often produce highly abstract models of them. ...

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