Lutz, Sebastian (2010) What's Right With a Syntactic Approach to Theories and Models? In: [2009] EPSA09: 2nd Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Amsterdam, 21-24 October, 2009) > EPSA 2009 Contributed Papers.
Abstract
I argue that, contrary to common opinion, (i) unintended models do not pose a significant problem for syntactic approaches to scientific theories, (ii) in syntactic approaches, scientific theories can be as well connected to the world as in semantic ones, and (iii) some syntactic approaches are at least as language independent as semantic ones. Based on these results, I argue that syntactic and semantic approaches fare equally well when it comes to (iv) capturing the theory-observation relation, (v) ease of application, and (vi) accommodating the use of models in the sciences.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Keywords: | Syntactic approach, syntactic view, received view, semantic approach, semantic view, structuralism, scientific models, formalization, language independence |
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| Subjects: | General Issues > Structure of Theories
General Issues > Models and Idealization
General Issues > Theory/Observation
General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism |
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| Conferences and Volumes: | [2009] EPSA09: 2nd Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Amsterdam, 21-24 October, 2009) > EPSA 2009 Contributed Papers |
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| Depositing User: | Sebastian Lutz |
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| Date Deposited: | 02 Apr 2010 |
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| Last Modified: | 29 Mar 2013 09:31 |
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| Item ID: | 5264 |
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| URI: | http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/5264 |
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