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This monograph offers a critical introduction to current theories
of how scientific models represent their target systems.
Representation is important because it allows scientists to study a
model to discover features of reality. The authors provide a map of
the conceptual landscape surrounding the issue of scientific
representation, arguing that it consists of multiple intertwined
problems. They provide an encyclopaedic overview of existing
attempts to answer these questions, and they assess their strengths
and weaknesses. The book also presents a comprehensive statement of
their alternative proposal, the DEKI account of representation,
which they have developed over the last few years. They show how
the account works in the case of material as well as non-material
models; how it accommodates the use of mathematics in scientific
modelling; and how it sheds light on the relation between
representation in science and art. The issue of representation has
generated a sizeable literature, which has been growing fast in
particular over the last decade. This makes it hard for novices to
get a handle on the topic because so far there is no book-length
introduction that would guide them through the discussion.
Likewise, researchers may require a comprehensive review that they
can refer to for critical evaluations. This book meets the needs of
both groups.
This monograph offers a critical introduction to current theories
of how scientific models represent their target systems.
Representation is important because it allows scientists to study a
model to discover features of reality. The authors provide a map of
the conceptual landscape surrounding the issue of scientific
representation, arguing that it consists of multiple intertwined
problems. They provide an encyclopaedic overview of existing
attempts to answer these questions, and they assess their strengths
and weaknesses. The book also presents a comprehensive statement of
their alternative proposal, the DEKI account of representation,
which they have developed over the last few years. They show how
the account works in the case of material as well as non-material
models; how it accommodates the use of mathematics in scientific
modelling; and how it sheds light on the relation between
representation in science and art. The issue of representation has
generated a sizeable literature, which has been growing fast in
particular over the last decade. This makes it hard for novices to
get a handle on the topic because so far there is no book-length
introduction that would guide them through the discussion.
Likewise, researchers may require a comprehensive review that they
can refer to for critical evaluations. This book meets the needs of
both groups.
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 models.
Models are important in the scientific process because scientists
can study a model to discover features of reality. But what does it
mean for something to represent something else? This is the
question discussed in this Element. The authors begin by
disentangling different aspects of the problem of representation
and then discuss the dominant accounts in the philosophical
literature: the resemblance view and inferentialism. They find them
both wanting and submit that their own preferred option, the
so-called DEKI account, not only eschews the problems that beset
these conceptions, but further provides a comprehensive answer to
the question of how scientific representation works. This title is
also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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