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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161031T171500
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SUMMARY:Fiora Salis (LSE): "Models as scientific representations: fiction\, reference and make-believe"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In this presentation I develop a novel fictionalist account of how models represent. To this aim I offer a general definition of models as representations\, I present a fictionalist account of what models are that draws on Walton’s theory of fiction\, I assess current fictionalist accounts of models as representations\, and I finally offer an explanation of how models represent in terms of the crucial notions of reference and make-believe. The key idea is that the representation relation between models and the world is a kind of indirect referential relation that is mediated by propositional imagination of the make-believe variety.\n\nFiora Salis is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) at LSE.
URL:http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/events/fiora-salis-lse-models-as-scientific-representations/
LOCATION:Lakatos Building\, London\, WC2A 2AE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:ph551 Research Seminar in the Philosophy of Natural Sciences
ORGANIZER;CN="Bryan%20W.%20Roberts":MAILTO:b.w.roberts@lse.ac.uk
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