Mathematics plays a central role in much of contemporary science, but philosophers have struggled to understand what this role is or how significant it might be

Mathematics plays a central role in much of contemporary science, but philosophers have struggled to understand what this role is or how significant it might be

This monograph offers a critical introduction to current theories of how scientific models represent their target systems. Representation is important because i

A fundamental reason for using formal methods in the philosophy of science is the desirability of having a fixed frame of reference that may be used to organize

This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the notion of scientific representation. It does so by focussing on an important class of scientific repres