Paradigms in Cartography An Epistemological Review of the 20th and 21st Centuries /

• Main Authors: Azócar Fernández, Pablo Iván (Author), Buchroithner, Manfred Ferdinand (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Geography.; Epistemology.; Philosophy and science.; Geographical information systems.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Philosophy of Science.

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 te...

Table of Contents:

• Philosophy, Epistemology and Cartography
• A Philosophical Framework Applied to Cartography
• Paradigms in the History of Science
• Tendencies in Contemporary Cartography
• Critical Cartography in the Context of Postmodernism
• Post-representational Cartography
• Possibility of a Paradigm in Cartography
• Scopes of Paradigms in Cartography
• Conclusion.