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...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue; Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
• Part 1. Philosophical Coordinates
• Chapter 1. “On Representation and Models in Bas van Fraassen’s Approach”; Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
• Chapter 2. “Scientific Activity as an Interpretative Practice. Empiricism, Constructivism and Pragmatism”; Inmaculada Perdomo
• Chapter 3. “Models and Phenomena: Bas van Fraassen’s Empiricist Structuralism”; Iranzo, Valeriano
• Part 2. Models and Representations
• Chapter 4. “The Criterion of Empirical Grounding in the Sciences”; Bas van Fraassen
• Chapter 5. “On Representing Evidence”; Maria Carla Galavotti
• Part 3. Models and Reality
• Chapter 6. “The View from Within and the View from Above : Looking at van Fraassen’s Perrin”; Stathis Psillos
• Chapter 7. “Models and Phenomena: Bas van Fraassen’s Empiricist Structuralism”;  Valeriano Iranzo
• Chapter 8. “Scientific Models and Abduction: The Role of Non Classical Logics”; Ángel Nepomuceno
• Part 4. Scientific Explanation and Epistemic Values Judgments
• Chapter 9. “Explanation as a Pragmatic Virtue: Bas van Fraassen’s Model”; Margarita Santana
• Chapter 10. “Values, Choices, and Epistemic Stances”, Bas van Fraassen.