Science and Partial Truth: A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning

By N. Costa, Steven French. 2003

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Modelling and representing: An artefactual approach to model-based representation (2011, background): “…directionality (e.g., Bartels 2006), or trying to weaken the conditions that isomorphism imposes on representation by suggesting different morphisms such as homomorphism (Lloyd 1988, Bartels 2006, Ambrosio 2007) or partial isomorphism (Bueno 1997, French & Ladyman 1999, da Costa and French 2003).”
What Scientific Theories Could Not Be* (2012, background): “At present, semanticists seem to prefer the account of mathematical structures given in Nicholas Bourbaki’s Theory of Sets (see Da Costa and French 2003).”
Incredible Worlds, Credible Results (2009, unknown): “Existing accounts have been based on considerations of similarity (Giere 1988), isomorphism (Van Fraassen 1980; da Costa and French 2003) or simple induction (Sugden 2000).”