Models

This past week, a very interesting discussion has been emerging around the role of models, in the course of work on a new programme of the KNAW on computational humanities. The representational role of models tends to be at the forefront of people’s minds in this discussion. This means that models are seen as representations [...]

Realism

A while ago, at the workshop Visualising the Public Sphere: Ethics and Politics from YouTube to Google Earth,held on Wednesday 18 February 2009, we presented the project to an audience of VKS researchers and of philosophers from the University of Groningen.
One of the topics of discussion that came up in relation to our presentation [...]