Bas van Fraassen’s Approach to Representation and Models in Science

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gonzalez, Wenceslao J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 368
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Philosophy and science.; Computers.; Philosophy of Science.; Models and Principles.

This book analyzes Bas van Fraassen’s characterization of representation and models in science. In this regard, it presents the philosophical coordinates of his approach and pays attention to his structural empiricism as a framework for his views on scientific representations and models. These are d...