An agent-based conception of models and scientific representation

By Ronald N. Giere. Synthese, 2009

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, History and Philosophy of Science, Molecular Biology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/85272eb3775af4fa6bfb2c1086166f60f98d6089

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• How do models give us knowledge? The case of Carnot’s ideal heat engine (2011, background): “Thus representation becomes less a feature of models and their target systems than an accomplishment of representation users (Suárez 2004, 2010, Giere 2004, 2010, Bailer-Jones 2003, 2009).”