Models matter. Scientists spend much effort on constructing, improving, and testing models,
and countless pages in scientific journals are filled with descriptions of models and their …

There Are No Such Things as Theories considers the fundamental question: what is a
scientific theory? It presents a range of options-from theories are sets of propositions, to …

This volume builds on two recent developments in philosophy on the relationship between
art and science: the notion of representation and the role of values in theory choice and the …

Is there a role for aesthetic judgements in science? One aspect of scientific practice, the use
of thought experiments, has a clear aesthetic dimension. Thought experiments are creatively …

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 …

Abstract Roman Frigg and James Nguyen present a detailed statement and defense of the
fiction view of scientific models, according to which they are akin to the characters and …

Elgin offers an influential and far-reaching challenge to veritism. She takes scientific
understanding to be non-factive and maintains that there are epistemically useful falsehoods …

Those who wish to defend the role of aesthetic values in science face a dilemma: aesthetic
language is either used metaphorically for what are ultimately epistemic features, or it is …

What is the role of the imagination in scientific practice? Here I focus on the nature and role
of invitations to imagine in certain scientific texts as represented by the example of Einstein's …

Scientific publications in the field of art creation have sparked considerable debate within
the academic community in Indonesia. Issues such as the validity of artworks, assessment …