Salis, Fiora (2019) The new fiction view of models. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 0007-0882
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Abstract
How do models represent reality? There are two conditions that scientific models must satisfy to be representations of real systems, the aboutness condition and the epistemic condition. In this article, I critically assess the two main fictionalist theories of models as representations, the indirect fiction view and the direct fiction view, with respect to these conditions. And I develop a novel proposal, what I call ‘the new fiction view of models’. On this view, models are akin to fictional stories; they represent real-world phenomena if they stand in a denotation relation with reality; and they enable knowledge of reality via the generation of theoretical hypotheses, model–world comparisons and direct attributions.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | © 2019 The Author |
Divisions: | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method CPNSS |
Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) |
Date Deposited: | 13 May 2019 13:51 |
Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2024 03:21 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/100776 |
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