Are models our tools not our masters?

It is often claimed that one can avoid the kind of underdetermination that is a typical consequence of symmetries in physics by stipulating that symmetry-related models represent the same state of affairs (Leibniz Equivalence). But recent commentators (Dasgupta in Philos Perspect 25:115–160, 2011; P...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 202; no. 4; pp. 1 - 22
Main Author: Jacobs, Caspar
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Oct2023
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