Making Explicit the Implicit, Idealized Understanding of “Map” and “Cartography”

An Anti-Universalist Response to Mark Denil

Authors

  • Matthew H Edney Universities of Southern Maine and Wisconsin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14714/CP98.1765

Abstract

This paper responds to Mark Denil’s recent exposition in this journal of a conceptual theory of map. Denil advances a universalist position, that there exists an essential character of mapness that characterizes all maps. A key element of Denil’s essay is the dismissal of a strawman anti-universalism. This paper reasserts an anti-universalist understanding of maps and cartography to reveal the flaws in Denil’s essay.

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Published

2022-12-19

How to Cite

Edney, M. H. (2022). Making Explicit the Implicit, Idealized Understanding of “Map” and “Cartography”: An Anti-Universalist Response to Mark Denil. Cartographic Perspectives, (98), 51–60. https://doi.org/10.14714/CP98.1765

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Peer-Reviewed Articles