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The New Fiction View of Models (2021)

Salis, Fiora (Author)

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Volume: 72
Issue: 3
Pages: 717-742

URI: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/bjps/axz015

DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axz015

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How do models represent reality? There are two conditions that scientific models must satisfy to be representations of real systems, the aboutness condition and the epistemic condition. In this article, I critically assess the two main fictionalist theories of models as representations, the indirect fiction view and the direct fiction view, with respect to these conditions. And I develop a novel proposal, what I call the ‘new fiction view of models’. On this view, models are akin to fictional stories; they represent real-world phenomena if they stand in a denotation relation with reality; and they enable knowledge of reality via the generation of two main kinds of theoretical hypotheses, model–world comparisons and direct attributions.

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