The semantic approach to scientific representation is now long established as a favourite amongst philosophers of science. One of the foremost strains of this approach-the model-theoretic approach (MTA)-is to represent scientific theories as families of models, all of which satisfy or 'make true' a given set of constraints. However some autho.rs (Brown 2002, Frisch 2005) have criticised the approach on the grounds that certain scientific theories are logically inconsistent, and there can be no models of an inconsistent set of constraints. Thus it would seem that the MTA fails to represent inconsistent scientific theories at all, and this raises concerns about the way it represents in general. In a series of papers (1990, 1993, 1995) and a r...
We examine, from the partial structures perspective, two forms of applicability of mathematics: at ...
In this paper I connect two debates in the philosophy of science; the questions of scientific repres...
In “The Toolbox of Science” (1995) together with Towfic Shomar we advocated a form of instrumentalis...
The semantic approach to scientific representation is now long established as a favourite amongst ph...
Thirty years after the conference that gave rise to The Structure of Scientific Theories, there is r...
The partial structures program of da Costa, French and others offers a unified framework within whic...
I present a new account-the Structure-Representation Account (SRA)-of scientific models and approxim...
Inferentialists about scientific representation hold that an apparatus’s representing a target syste...
Inferentialists about scientific representation hold that an apparatus’s representing a target syste...
According to the semantic view, a theory is characterized by a class of models. In this paper, we ex...
Analyses of the nature and structure of scientific theories have predominantly focused on formalisat...
International audienceWhy are some models, like the harmonic oscillator, the Ising model, a few Hami...
In this paper I’ll explore the relation between ω-inconsistency and plain inconsistency, in the cont...
In the progression from Newtonian physics to general relativity, the structural feature of absolute ...
Bohr’s atomic model is one of the better known examples of empirically successful, albeit inconsiste...
We examine, from the partial structures perspective, two forms of applicability of mathematics: at ...
In this paper I connect two debates in the philosophy of science; the questions of scientific repres...
In “The Toolbox of Science” (1995) together with Towfic Shomar we advocated a form of instrumentalis...
The semantic approach to scientific representation is now long established as a favourite amongst ph...
Thirty years after the conference that gave rise to The Structure of Scientific Theories, there is r...
The partial structures program of da Costa, French and others offers a unified framework within whic...
I present a new account-the Structure-Representation Account (SRA)-of scientific models and approxim...
Inferentialists about scientific representation hold that an apparatus’s representing a target syste...
Inferentialists about scientific representation hold that an apparatus’s representing a target syste...
According to the semantic view, a theory is characterized by a class of models. In this paper, we ex...
Analyses of the nature and structure of scientific theories have predominantly focused on formalisat...
International audienceWhy are some models, like the harmonic oscillator, the Ising model, a few Hami...
In this paper I’ll explore the relation between ω-inconsistency and plain inconsistency, in the cont...
In the progression from Newtonian physics to general relativity, the structural feature of absolute ...
Bohr’s atomic model is one of the better known examples of empirically successful, albeit inconsiste...
We examine, from the partial structures perspective, two forms of applicability of mathematics: at ...
In this paper I connect two debates in the philosophy of science; the questions of scientific repres...
In “The Toolbox of Science” (1995) together with Towfic Shomar we advocated a form of instrumentalis...