Información General

• Autores: Mauricio Suárez (coord.)
• Editores: Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge USA
• Año de publicación: 2009
• País: Estados Unidos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 0415990351, 9780415990356
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Listado de artículos

• • Part I Introduction

    • Fictions in Scientific Practice

      Mauricio Suárez

      págs. 3-15

      

  • Part II The Nature of Fictions in Science

    • Fictionalism

      Arthur Fine

      págs. 19-36

      

    • Laboratory Fictions

      Joseph Rouse

      págs. 37-55

      

    • Models as Fictions

      Anouk Barberousse, Pascal Ludwig

      págs. 56-73

      

  • Part III The Explanatory Power of Fictions

    • Exemplification, Idealization, and Scientific Understanding

      Catherine Z. Elgin

      págs. 77-90

      

    • Explanatory Fictionns

      Alisa Bokulich

      págs. 91-109

      

    • Fictions, Representations, and Reality

      Margaret Morrison

      págs. 110-135

      

  • Part IV Fictions in the Physical Sciences

    • When Does a Scientific Theory Describe Reality?

      Carsten Held

      págs. 139-157

      

    • Scientific Fictions as Rules of Inference

      Mauricio Suárez

      págs. 158-178

      

    • A Function for Fictions: Expanding the Scope of Science

      Eric Winsberg

      págs. 179-189

      

  • Part V Fictions in the Special Sciences

    • Model Organisms as Fictions

      Rachel A. Ankeny

      págs. 193-204

      

    • Representation, Idealization, and Fiction in Economics: From the Assumptions Issue to the Epistemology of Modeling

      Tarja Knuuttila

      págs. 205-231

      

  • Part VI Fictions and Realism

    • Fictions, Fictionalization, and Truth in Science

      Paul Teller

      págs. 235-247

      

    • Why Scientific Models Should Not Be Regarded as Works of Fiction

      Ronald N. Giere

      págs. 248-258