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Indispensability and Effectiveness of Diagrams in Molecular Biology
Javier Antasubject
Diagrammatic reasoningUNESCO::FILOSOFÍA:FILOSOFÍA [UNESCO]Computer scienceRepresentation (systemics)Encoding (semiotics)Epistemic virtueMolecular biologyDomain (software engineering)description
Abstract: In this paper I aim to defend a twofold thesis. On one hand, I will support, against Perini (2005), the indispensability of diagrams when structurally complex biomolecules are concerned, since it is not possible to satisfactorily use linguistic-sentential representations at that domain. On the other hand, even when diagrams are dispensable I will defend than they will generally be more effective than other representations in encoding biomolecular knowledge, relying on Kulvicki-Shimojima’s diagrammatic effectiveness thesis. Finally, I will ground many epistemic virtues of biomolecular diagrams (understandability, explanatory power, prediction and hypothesis evaluation) on their cognitive-computational indispensability and their semantic-epistemic effectiveness. Keywords: Molecular Biology, Diagrammatic Representation, Representational Indispensability.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-24 | Quaderns de Filosofia |