书目名称 | Paradigms in Cartography | 副标题 | An Epistemological R | 编辑 | Pablo Iván Azócar Fernández,Manfred Ferdinand Buch | 视频video | | 概述 | First book about this topic.Investigates the position of cartography in the context of sciences.Shows current tendencies in cartography in the context of information and communication technologies.Inc | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .In this book the main trends, concepts and directions in cartography and mapping in modernism and post-modernism are reviewed. Philosophical and epistemological issues are analysed in cartography from positivist-empiricist, neo-positivist and post-structuralist stances. In general, in cartography technological aspects have been considered as well as theoretical issues. The aim is to highlight the epistemological and philosophical viewpoint during the development of the discipline. .Some main philosophers who have been influential for contemporary thinking such as Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Popper and Bertrand Russell, are considered. None of these philosophers wrote about cartography directly (excepting Kant), but their philosophies are related to cartography and mapping issues. The book also analyses the concept of paradigm or paradigm shift coined by Thomas Kuhn, who applied it to the history of science. Different cartographic trends that have arisen since the second half of the twentieth century are analysed according to this important concept which is implicit inside the scientific or disciplinary communities. .Further, the authors analyse the position of cartogr | 出版日期 | Book 2014 | 关键词 | Cartography; Epistemology; Isms in Cartography; Paradigm Shifts | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38893-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-44754-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-38893-4 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE |
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