Article ID: CBB270986404

The New Fiction View of Models (2021)

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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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Authors & Contributors
Yucel, Robyn
Dellsén, Finnur
Rice, Collin C.
Braillard, Pierre-Alain
David Merritt
Parsons, Keith M.
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Realism
Epistemology
Models and modeling in science
Methodology of science; scientific method
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Germany
Great Britain
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