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The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and epistemology. Mauricio Suárez develops a conception of representation that delivers a compelling account of modeling practice. He begins by discussing the history and methodology of model building, charting the emergence of what he calls the modeling attitude, a nineteenth-century and fin de siècle development. Prominent cases of models, both historical and contemporary, are used as benchmarks for the accounts of representation considered throughout the book. After arguing against reductive naturalist theories of scientific representation, Suárez sets out his own account: a case for pluralism regarding the means of representation and minimalism regarding its constituents. He shows that scientists employ a variety of modeling relations in their representational practice—which helps them to assess the accuracy of their representations—while demonstrating that there is nothing metaphysically deep about the constituent relation that encompasses all these diverse means. The book also probes the broad implications of Suárez’s inferential conception outside scientific modeling itself, covering analogies with debates about artistic representation and philosophical thought over the past several decades.

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The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and epistemology. Mauricio Suárez develops a conception of representation that delivers a compelling account of modeling practice. He begins by discussing the history and methodology of model building, charting the emergence of what he calls the modeling attitude, a nineteenth-century and fin de siècle development. Prominent cases of models, both historical and contemporary, are used as benchmarks for the accounts of representation considered throughout the book. After arguing against reductive naturalist theories of scientific representation, Suárez sets out his own account: a case for pluralism regarding the means of representation and minimalism regarding its constituents. He shows that scientists employ a variety of modeling relations in their representational practice—which helps them to assess the accuracy of their representations—while demonstrating that there is nothing metaphysically deep about the constituent relation that encompasses all these diverse means. The book also probes the broad implications of Suárez’s inferential conception outside scientific modeling itself, covering analogies with debates about artistic representation and philosophical thought over the past several decades.

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Este libro tiene una ambición docente, pero no es un manual o libro de texto al uso. Combina la ambición docente con una tesis nueva y original en la presentación histórica de la filosofía de la ciencia. En ese sentido, tiene, más bien, el carácter de un monográfico avanzado de investigación. Así pues, está dirigido a un público doble: estudiantes de últimos cursos de grado o licenciatura, o de máster, en filosofía, por un lado; e investigadores que comienzan su andadura en temas de filosofía de la ciencia, o afines. Si un proyecto híbrido como es éste puede tener éxito, lo dejo al juicio del lector. Ciertamente, propongo aquí una tesis atrevida y relativamente nóvel: la filosofía contemporánea de la ciencia debe mucho más al neo-positivismo del círculo de Viena de lo que se admite o describe comúnmente. Y tal herencia, lejos de suponer una carga, supone una base extraordinariamente fértil y, en cierto modo, sólida. Eso sí, la tesis se despliega a lo largo de 10 capítulos de una manera

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