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Papers and Commentaries

The following are available for download as PDFs to anyone who is participating in the mini-conference, including interested members of the audience. A password is required: to obtain one, please email dom.lopes@ubc.ca.

“Pictures as Epistemic Tools”
Catharine Abell (University of Manchester)

      Comments on Abell
      S. H. Vollmer (University of Alabama)

“Images of Theoretical Models”
Anouk Barberousse (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique)

“From Seeing-as to Seeing-in, from Aesthetics to Philosophy of Science”
Jordi Cat (Indiana University–Bloomington)

“Models, Pictures, and Unified Accounts of Representation” [figures]
Steven Downes (University of Utah)

      Comments on Downes
      Adam Toon (Cambridge University)

      Comments on Downes
      S. H. Vollmer (University of Alabama)

“The End of the Adaptive Landscape Metaphor”
Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University)

“Knowing with Images: Medium and Message”
John V. Kulvicki (Dartmouth College)

“Imaging the Brain, Imagining the Brain”
Ellen C. Landers (Independent Scholar)

“Drawing in the Social Sciences: Lithic Illustration”
Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)

“Photography and the Study of Aesthetic Preference”
Aaron Meskin (University of Leeds)

“Abstract Images in Biology”
Laura Perini (Virginia Tech)

“Scientific Fictions as Heuristic Rules of Inference”
Mauricio Suarez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Comments on All Papers
Christoph Luethy (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)