Scientific Representation: An Inferentialist-Expressivist Manifesto
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/48681556" target="_blank" >https://www.jstor.org/stable/48681556</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/philtopics202250112" target="_blank" >10.5840/philtopics202250112</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Scientific Representation: An Inferentialist-Expressivist Manifesto
Original language description
This essay presents a fully inferentialist-expressivist account of scientific representation. In general, inferentialist approaches to scientific representation argue that the capacity of a model to represent a target system depends on inferences from models to target systems (surroga- tive inference). Inferentialism is attractive because it makes the epistemic function of models central to their representational capacity. Prior inferentialist approaches to scientific representation, however, have depended on some representational element, such as denotation or representational force. Brandom’s Making It Explicit provides a model of how to fully discharge such representational vocabulary, but it cannot be applied directly to scientific representations. Pursuing a strategy parallel to Brandom’s, this essay begins with an account of how surrogative inference is justified. Scientific representation and the denotation of model elements are then explained in terms of surrogative inference by treating scientificThis content downloaded from representation and denotation as expressive, analogous to Brandom’s account of truth. The result is a thoroughgoing inferentialism: M is a scientific representation of T if and only if M has scientifically justified surrogative consequences that are answers to questions about T.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GX20-05180X" target="_blank" >GX20-05180X: Inferentialism naturalized: norms, meanings and reasons in the natural world</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Philosophical topics
ISSN
0276-2080
e-ISSN
2154-154X
Volume of the periodical
50
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
29
Pages from-to
263-291
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85139001014