title: Successful visual epistemic representation.
abstract: In this paper, I characterize visual epistemic representations as concrete two- or three-dimensional tools for conveying information about aspects of their target systems or phenomena of interest. I outline two features of successful visual epistemic representation: that the vehicle of representation contain sufficiently accurate information about the phenomenon of interest for the user's purpose, and that it convey this information to the user in a manner that makes it readily available to her. I argue that actual epistemic representation may involve tradeoffs between these features and is successful to the extent that they are present.
authors.affiliation: Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, United States. Electronic address: a.bolinska@pitt.edu.
authors.forename: Agnes
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bolinska
mesh_terms: D003626:Data Display; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013223:Statistics as Topic
keywords: Information; Models; Representation; Semantic salience; Syntactic salience