Frigg, Roman and Nguyen, James (2017) The Turn of the Valve: Representing with Material Models. [Preprint]

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Abstract

Many scientific models are representations. Building on Goodman and Elgin’s notion of representation-as we analyse what this claim involves by providing a general definition of what makes something a scientific model and formulating a novel account of how they represent. We call the result the DEKI account of representation, which offers a complex kind of representation involving an interplay of denotation, exemplification, keying up of properties, and imputation. Throughout we focus on material models, and we illustrate our claims with the Phillips-Newlyn machine. In the conclusion we suggest that, mutatis mutandis, the DEKI account can be carried over to other kinds of models, notably fictional and mathematical models.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Frigg, Roman r.p.frigg@lse.ac.uk 0000-0003-0812-0907 Nguyen, James J.Nguyen1@lse.ac.uk
Keywords:	Model, Representation, Exemplification, Denotation, Goodman, Elgin
Subjects:	General Issues > Models and Idealization
Depositing User:	Roman Frigg
Date Deposited:	31 Jul 2017 00:43
Last Modified:	31 Jul 2017 00:43
Item ID:	13268
Subjects:	General Issues > Models and Idealization
Date:	July 2017
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/13268

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