DEKI, Denotation, and the Fortuitous Misuse of Maps
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003202905-24" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003202905-24</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
DEKI, Denotation, and the Fortuitous Misuse of Maps
Original language description
Unjustified surrogative inferences from maps can sometimes accidentally result in true conclusions. These are instances of what we call the fortuitous misuse of a map. Such phenomena challenge us to distinguish between justified and unjustified surrogative inference—between using and misusing a map. For the DEKI account of epistemic representation, that difference turns, in part, on what the map denotes. This chapter argues that none of the common accounts of denotation helps DEKI distinguish between use and misuse because DEKI gives users too much freedom in their interpretations. DEKI appeals to context as a constraint, so we turn to the methodology of archaeological site mapping to understand how context might help distinguish between map use and misuse. Doing so reveals that the causal links established by map making are determined, in part, by designers’ background knowledge and research questions. Although the result may be a plausible story about how context helps fix denotation, it also shows that users’ entitlement to draw surrogative inferences is established by the epistemic constraints on the mapmakers. Several challenges for DEKI arise from the way in which context distinguishes between justified and unjustified surrogative inferences.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GX20-05180X" target="_blank" >GX20-05180X: Inferentialism naturalized: norms, meanings and reasons in the natural world</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Scientific Understanding and Representation. Modeling in the Physical Sciences
ISBN
978-1-00-320290-5
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
280-295
Number of pages of the book
428
Publisher name
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Ltd
Place of publication
New York
UT code for WoS chapter
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