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...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 192; no. 12; pp. 3817 - 3838 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2015
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