TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nguyen,James
AU  - Frigg,Roman
TI  - Scientific representation
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of science,
SN  - 9781009003575 (ebook)
AV  - Q175 .N414 2022
U1  - 501 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Methodology
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Aug 2022)
N2  - This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the notion of scientific representation. It does so by focussing on an important class of scientific representations, namely scientific models. Models are important in the scientific process because scientists can study a model to discover features of reality. But what does it mean for something to represent something else? This is the question discussed in this Element. The authors begin by disentangling different aspects of the problem of representation and then discuss the dominant accounts in the philosophical literature: the resemblance view and inferentialism. They find them both wanting and submit that their own preferred option, the so-called DEKI account, not only eschews the problems that beset these conceptions, but further provides a comprehensive answer to the question of how scientific representation works. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009003575
ER  -