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(2013) Synthese 190 (2).
Epistemic representation, informativeness and the aim of faithful representation
Agnes Bolinska
pp. 219-234
In this paper, I take scientific models to be epistemic representations of their target systems. I define an epistemic representation to be a tool for gaining information about its target system and argue that a vehicle’s capacity to provide specific information about its target system—its informativeness—is an essential feature of this kind of representation. I draw an analogy to our ordinary notion of interpretation to show that a user’s aim of faithfully representing the target system is necessary for securing this feature.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-012-0143-6
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Bolinska, A. (2013). Epistemic representation, informativeness and the aim of faithful representation. Synthese 190 (2), pp. 219-234.
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