Vorms, Marion (2009) Formats of Representation in Scientific Theorising. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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This paper is intended to sketch the definition of a methodological tool -- the notion of a format of representation -- for the study of scientific theorising. One of its main assumption is that a philosophical study of theorising needs to pay attention to other types of units of analysis than the traditional ones, namely, theories and models approached in a logical and structural way, since scientific reasoning is always led on concrete representational devices and depends upon their specific properties. The notion of a format is intended to characterise the differences between various types of representational devices, in terms of the inferences they enable cognitive agents to draw.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Vorms, Marion
Keywords:	models, representation, format, inferences, reasoning, cognitive, theorising, understanding
Depositing User:	Marion Vorms
Date Deposited:	11 Mar 2009
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:16
Item ID:	3901
Date:	2009
URI:	https://philsci-archive-dev.library.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3901

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