Scientific representation: against similarity and isomorphism

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An agent-based conception of models and scientific representation (2009, background): “9 This designation parallels Suárez' (2004) "Inferential Conception of Scientific Representation " which also has an intentional component.”
Learners' Epistemic Criteria for Good Scientific Models. (2011, background): “In the history and philosophy of science, recent work has emphasized the central roles that the development, testing, evaluation, and refinement of models play in scientific practice (e.g., Giere, 2004; Godfrey-Smith, 2006; Longino, 2002; Nersessian, 2002; Suarez, 2003).”
How do models give us knowledge? The case of Carnot’s ideal heat engine (2011, background): “(For extended discussion on these points see Suarez 1999, 2003, 2010; Frigg 2002, 2006).”
Modelling and representing: An artefactual approach to model-based representation (2011, background): “A host of pragmatically inclined philosophers have variously argued that representation should be distinguished from accuracy, maintaining that an inaccurate or misrepresenting model M of a target system T can still be a representation of T (e.g., Suárez 2003, Frigg 2006, Contessa 2007)6.”