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      Scientific Representation and the Semantic View of Theories 

      Frigg, Roman (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2006)
      It is now part and parcel of the official philosophical wisdom that models are essential to the acquisition and organisation of scientific knowledge. It is also generally accepted that most models represent their target ...
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      Signs, figures and time: Cavaillès on "intuition" in mathematics 

      Cassou-Noguès, P. I. (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2006)
      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. ...
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      On the Analogy between Cognitive Representation and Truth 

      Suárez, Mauricio; Solé, Albert (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2006)
      In this paper we claim that the notion of cognitive representation (and scientific representation in particular) is irreducibly plural. By means of an analogy with the minimalist conception of truth, we show that this ...
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      There is no special problem about scientific representation 

      Cohen, Jonathan; Callender, Craig (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2006)
      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 ...
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      Defending the Structural Concept of Representation 

      Bartels, Andreas (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2006)
      The aim of this paper is to defend the structural concept of representation, as defined by homomorphisms, against its main objections, namely: logical objections, the objection from misrepresentation, the objection from ...
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      Acero, Juan José; Flores, Luis; y Flórez, Alfonso (eds.) (2003): Viejos y nuevos pensamientos. Ensayos sobre la filosofía de Wittgenstein 

      Sanfelix Vidarte, Vicente (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2006)
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      Rivadulla, Andrés (2004): Éxito, razón y cambio en física. Un enfoque instrumental en teoría de la ciencia 

      Iranzo, Valeriano (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2006)
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      Corfield, David (2003): Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics 

      Zalamea, Fernando (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2006)
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      Zamora Bonilla, Jesús (2004): La lonja del saber 

      García, Pablo S. (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2006)
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      Scientific Representation. Introduction 

      Díez, José; Frigg, Roman (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2006)
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      Scientific theories as intervening representations 

      Ibarra Unzueta, Joseba Andoni ORCID; Mormann, Thomas Arnold ORCID (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2006)
      In this paper some classical representational ideas of Hertz and Duhem are used to show how the di-chotomy between representation and intervention can be overcome. More precisely, scientific theories are reconstructed as ...