The aim of this paper is twofold:(1) to assess whether the construct of neural representations
plays an explanatory role under the variational free-energy principle and its corollary …

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 …

Abstract Models are of central importance in many scientific contexts. We study models and
thereby discover features of the phenomena they stand for. For this to be possible models …

In this paper we explore the constraints that our preferred account of scientific representation
places on the ontology of scientific models. Pace the Direct Representation view associated …

Models and theories are of central importance in science, and scientists spend substantial
amounts of time building, testing, comparing and revising models and theories. It is therefore …

A lo largo de la historia de la educación se han sucedido diversas revisiones,
reformulaciones y cuestionamientos de la misma, en distintos niveles de concreción, que …

Veritism, the position that truth is necessary for epistemic acceptability, seems to be in
tension with the observation that much of our best science is not, strictly speaking, true when …

Representationalism—the view that scientific modeling is best understood in
representational terms—is the received view in contemporary philosophy of science …

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 …

This paper results from a critical literature overview on systems theory and socio-technical
engineering. It has allowed exploring a vast interdisciplinary domain along an …