The Epistemology of Maps
Quill R. Kukla,
PhilArchive,
Jul 31, 2021
This paper (23 page docx) explores "three distinctive kinds of epistemic risks in map-making that generate special versions of the demarcation problem... aesthetic risk, categorization risk, and simplification risk." The discussion of the sorts of things that can go right and go wrong in map-making is fascinating in its own right, but also, can (and should) be applied to our understanding of representation in general. This is important because to teach is essentially to represent a discipline, to (if you will) provide learners with a map of a certain domain of study. And just like map-making in general, there's no one best way to do it, and no one best map of any given domain.
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