Titlebook: Beyond Mimesis and Convention; Representation in Ar Roman Frigg,Matthew Hunter Book 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Art and

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Fictional Entities, Theoretical Models and Figurative Truth, be understood as making the same kind of claim we make when we say “there are cans of beer in the refrigerator”: there is no reinterpretation. (ii) Scientific theories purport to be true (iii). We may in principle have good reasons for believing that a scientific theory is true.

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Book 2010of all kinds. From photographs and computer-generated images to diagrams, charts, and graphs; from scale models to abstract theories, representations are ubiquitous in, and central to, science. Likewise, after spending much of the twentieth century in proverbial exile as abstraction and Formalist ae

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Models: Parables v Fables,d in–and unrealistic–what is filled in is not true of many real situations. Yet we want to use the results of these models to draw conclusions about actually occurring situations. In the past I have proposed that we interpret these models as fables. The happenings in the model are only one concrete

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Models as Make-Believe, first set out the problem of scientific representation and respond to a recent argument due to Craig Callender and Jonathan Cohen, which aims to show that the problem may be easily dismissed. I then introduce my account of models as props in games of make-believe and show how it offers a solution t

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