A Parser as an Epistemic Artifact: A Material View on Models.

The purpose of this paper is to suggest that models in scientific practice can be conceived of as epistemic artifacts. Approaching models this way accommodates many such things that working scientists themselves call models but that the semantic conception of models does not duly recognize as such....

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 70; no. 5; pp. 1484 - 1496
Autores principales: Knuuttila, Tarja, Voutilainen, Atro
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press Dec2003
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        Epistemics
        Parsing (Computer grammar)
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      ab: The purpose of this paper is to suggest that models in scientific practice can be conceived of as epistemic artifacts. Approaching models this way accommodates many such things that working scientists themselves call models but that the semantic conception of models does not duly recognize as such. That models are epistemic artifacts implies, firstly, that they cannot be understood apart from purposeful human activity; secondly, that they are somehow materialized inhabitants of the intersubjective field of that activity; and thirdly, that they can function also as knowledge objects. We argue that models as epistemic artifacts provide knowledge in many other ways than just via direct representative links. To substantiate our view we use a language-technological artifact, a parser, as an example.
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