Abstraction in Science and Art
Philosophical Perspectives
Abstraction in Science and Art
Philosophical Perspectives
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Description
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 a 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.