a commitment that I suggest we find not just in graphical presentations but in much of linguistic testimony as well. I end by arguing that this move can help us resolve some apparent problems in the literature on scientific tesitmony, such as the alleged conflict between honesty and idealization.

I'm hoping -- job market willing -- that this is the first in a series of papers on graphs and their role in the sciences. As I show in this popular pice, there's a lot of potential value in bringing tools from philosophy to bear on graphs and graphing: www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2024...

The Case of the Mislabeled Axis — Extinct

In which Corey Dethier explores the meaning of scientific graphs and revisits the John Christy climate controversy