Diagrams as Tools for Scientific Reasoning

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• 作者：Adele Abrahamsen (1)
  William Bechtel (1)
  
  1. University of California ; San Diego ; USA
  
• 刊名：Review of Philosophy and Psychology
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：March 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：6
• 期：1
• 页码：117-131
• 全文大小：1,172 KB
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• 刊物主题：Philosophy of Mind; Cognitive Psychology; Neurosciences; Epistemology; Developmental Psychology; Philosophy of Science;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1878-5166

文摘

We contend that diagrams are tools not only for communication but also for supporting the reasoning of biologists. In the mechanistic research that is characteristic of biology, diagrams delineate the phenomenon to be explained, display explanatory relations, and show the organized parts and operations of the mechanism proposed as responsible for the phenomenon. Both phenomenon diagrams and explanatory relations diagrams, employing graphs or other formats, facilitate applying visual processing to the detection of relevant patterns. Mechanism diagrams guide reasoning about how the parts and operations work together to produce the phenomenon and what experiments need to be done to improve on the existing account. We examine how these functions are served by diagrams in circadian rhythm research.