Models, Representation, and Mediation.

Representation has been one of the main themes in the recent discussion of models. Several authors have argued for a pragmatic approach to representation that takes users and their interpretations into account. It appears to me, however, that this emphasis on representation places excessive limitati...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 72; no. 5; pp. 1260 - 1272
Autor principal: Knuuttila, Tarja
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press Dec2005
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