Contessa, Gabriele (2005) Disentangling Scientific Representation. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

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The main aim of this paper is to disentangle three senses in which we can say that a model represents a system—denotation epistemic representation, and successful epistemic representation--and to individuate what questions arise from each sense of the notion of representation as used in this context. Also, I argue that a model is an epistemic representation of a system only if a user adopts a general interpretation of the model in terms of a system. In the process, I hope to clarify where those who, following Craig Callander and Jonathan Cohen, claim that there is no special problem about scientific representation go wrong. In the terminology adopted here, even if scientific representation is only an instance of epistemic representation, scientific representation should not be confounded with denotation.

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Item Type:	Other
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Contessa, Gabriele
Commentary on:	Callender, Craig and Cohen, Jonathan (2005) There Is No Special Problem About Scientific Representation. [Preprint]
Keywords:	scientific models; representation; surrogative reasoning;
Subjects:	General Issues > Models and Idealization
Depositing User:	Gabriele Contessa
Date Deposited:	13 Sep 2005
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:13
Item ID:	2436
Public Domain:	No
Commentary on:	Callender, Craig and Cohen, Jonathan (2005) There Is No Special Problem About Scientific Representation.
Subjects:	General Issues > Models and Idealization
Date:	July 2005
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2436

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• Callender, Craig and Cohen, Jonathan There Is No Special Problem About Scientific Representation. (deposited 26 Jan 2005)
  • Contessa, Gabriele Disentangling Scientific Representation. (deposited 13 Sep 2005) [Currently Displayed]

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