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This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the notion of scientific representation. It does so by focussing on an important class of scientific repres

Mathematics plays a central role in much of contemporary science, but philosophers have struggled to understand what this role is or how significant it might be

The essays in this book provide an excellent introduction to the means by which scientists convey their ideas. While diverse in their subject matter, the essays

This monograph offers a critical introduction to current theories of how scientific models represent their target systems. Representation is important because i

A fresh approach to visualization practices in the sciences that considers novel forms of imaging technology and draws on recent theoretical perspectives on rep