R Frigg, J Nguyen - Springer handbook of model-based science, 2017 - Springer
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 …
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 …
How does mathematics apply to something non-mathematical? We distinguish between a general application problem and a special application problem. A critical examination of the …
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 …
Designing complex products involves working with uncertainties as the product, the requirements and the environment in which it is used co-evolve, and designers and external …
En el presente trabajo analizamos críticamente el modo en que el Estructuralismo Empirista de van Fraassen caracteriza la relación de representación entre las teorías y los …
D Matthiessen - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an account of accurate scientific representation in terms of techniques that produce data from a target phenomenon. I consider an approach to accurate …
B Vos - Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 2022 - Springer
The structuralist approach represents the relation between a model and physical system as a relation between two mathematical structures. However, since a physical system is prima …