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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …