Add to ORKGHalvorson (2012) argues that the semantic view of theories leads to absurdities. Glymour (2013) shows how to inoculate the semantic view against Halvorson's criticisms, namely by making it into a syntactic view of theories. I argue that this modified semantic-syntactic view cannot do the philosophical work that the original "language-free" semantic view was supposed to do
I argue that, contrary to common opinion, (i) unintended models do not pose a significant problem fo...
Several philosophers of science construe models of scientific theories as set-theoretic structures. ...
Syntactic approaches in the philosophy of science, which are based on formalizations in predicate lo...
Halvorson (2012) argues that the semantic view of theories leads to absurdities. Glymour (2013) sho...
According to the semantic view of scientific theories, theories are classes of models. I show that ...
According to the semantic view of scientific theories, theories are classes of models. I show that ...
Several philosophers of science construe models of scientific theories as set-theoretic structures. ...
Several philosophers of science construe models of scientifc theories as set-theoretic structures. S...
Several philosophers of science construe models of scientific theories as set-theoretic structures. ...
The debate between critics of syntactic and semantic approaches to the formalization of scientific t...
The debate between critics of syntactic and semantic approaches to the formalization of scientific t...
Recent work on the semantic view of scientific theories is highly critical of the position. This pa...
In this paper, a modest version of the Semantic View is motivated as both tenable and potentially fr...
In this paper, a modest version of the Semantic View is motivated as both tenable and potentially fr...
In this paper, a modest version of the Semantic View is motivated as both tenable and potentially fr...
I argue that, contrary to common opinion, (i) unintended models do not pose a significant problem fo...
Several philosophers of science construe models of scientific theories as set-theoretic structures. ...
Syntactic approaches in the philosophy of science, which are based on formalizations in predicate lo...
Halvorson (2012) argues that the semantic view of theories leads to absurdities. Glymour (2013) sho...
According to the semantic view of scientific theories, theories are classes of models. I show that ...
According to the semantic view of scientific theories, theories are classes of models. I show that ...
Several philosophers of science construe models of scientific theories as set-theoretic structures. ...
Several philosophers of science construe models of scientifc theories as set-theoretic structures. S...
Several philosophers of science construe models of scientific theories as set-theoretic structures. ...
The debate between critics of syntactic and semantic approaches to the formalization of scientific t...
The debate between critics of syntactic and semantic approaches to the formalization of scientific t...
Recent work on the semantic view of scientific theories is highly critical of the position. This pa...
In this paper, a modest version of the Semantic View is motivated as both tenable and potentially fr...
In this paper, a modest version of the Semantic View is motivated as both tenable and potentially fr...
In this paper, a modest version of the Semantic View is motivated as both tenable and potentially fr...
I argue that, contrary to common opinion, (i) unintended models do not pose a significant problem fo...
Several philosophers of science construe models of scientific theories as set-theoretic structures. ...
Syntactic approaches in the philosophy of science, which are based on formalizations in predicate lo...