External representations and scientific understanding.

This paper provides an inferentialist account of model-based understanding by combining a counterfactual account of explanation and an inferentialist account of representation with a view of modeling as extended cognition. This account makes it understandable how the manipulation of surrogate system...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 192; no. 12; pp. 3817 - 3838
Autores principales: Kuorikoski, Jaakko, Ylikoski, Petri
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2015
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