Science provides us with representations of atoms, elementary particles, polymers,
populations, pandemics, economies, rational decisions, aeroplanes, earthquakes, forest …

Philosophers have debated at length the epistemological status of scientific thought
experiments. I contend that the literature on this topic still lacks a common conceptual …

This Element introduces the philosophical literature on models, with an emphasis on
normative considerations relevant to models for decision-making. Chapter 1 gives an …

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 powerful idea put forward in the recent philosophy of science literature is that scientific
models are best understood as instruments, tools or, more generally, artifacts. This idea has …

Synthese way, the direct comparison between these two as an important means of
assessing models becomes problematic. On the one hand, if the target is actual, the …

This thesis is a conceptual and epistemological analysis of imagination and scientific
thought experiments. The first part of this thesis deals with the definition and typology of …

James Nguyen argues that certain works of literary fiction hold cognitive value about the
actual world. This chapter discusses two ways of understanding how we can learn from such …

Many scientific models are not objects that one can hold in one's hands, and yet they seem
to be objects of some sort. But of what sort? This chapter offers an answer to this question in …

En el presente artículo se sugiere la filosofía inductiva de la ciencia del filósofo victoriano
William Whewell como un enfoque apropiado para formular una noción consiliente de la …