11 articles in this issue
José DÍEZ,Roman FRIGG
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Andreas BARTELS
The paper defends the structural concept of representation, defined by homomorphisms, against the main objections that have been raised against it: Logical objections, the objection from misrepresentation, the objection from failing necessity, and the cop... see more
Andoni IBARRA,Thomas MORMANN
In this paper we use some ideas of Hertz and Duhem to propose a new concept of representation that overcomes the dichotomy between representation and intervention. It is based on the category-theoretical notion of adjoint situations and is used to explain... see more
Mauricio SUÁREZ,Albert SOLÉ,
We defend the claim that the inferential conception of representation is generally deflationary; and we show that deflationism is consistent with pluralism regarding the notion of cognitive representation. The nature and extent of this pluralism is explor... see more
Roman FRIGG
Models represent their target systems in one way or another. But what does it mean for a model to represent something beyond itself? This paper details different aspects of this problem and argues that the semantic view of theories does not provide us wit... see more
Craig CALLENDER,Jonathan COHEN
We propose that scientific representation is a special case of a more general notion of representation, and that the relatively well worked-out and plausible theories of the latter are directly applicable to the scientific special case.
Pierre CASSOU-NOGUÈS
This paper is concerned with Cavaillès’ account of “intuition” in mathematics. Cavaillès starts from Kant’s theory of constructions in intuition and then relies on various remarks by Hilbert to apply it to modern mathematics.
Fernando ZALAMEA
Vicente SANFELIX VIDARTE
Pablo S. GARCÍA
Valeriano IRANZO