Ronald Giere, Semanticist? A Provocative Question for the Contemporary Debate on Scientific Representation
Abstract This paper aims to show that it is better to consider Ronald Giere’s approach separately from what has been called the semanticist family in the philosophy of science. Mainly because he rejects the dyadic relations of isomorphic representation and truth for scientific representation, we will show that, especially from his notion of similarity, a pragmatic interpretation of his approach is better, which would be in better relation to scientific practice with models itself and the contemporary debate on representation. For this purpose, we will resort to a brief example of DIBs models in biology.
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Tarski, Alfred (1977). Introducción a la lógica y a la metodología de las ciencias deductivas. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe.
Tarski, Alfred (1983). The concept of truth in formalized languages. En J. Corcoran (ed.), Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics (pp. 152-278). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing.
Thagard, Paul (1988). Computational Philosophy of Science. Massachusetts: MIT Press.
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Booth, M. J., Restrepo Schild, V., Downs, F. G., Bayley, H. (2017). Functional aqueous droplet networks. Molecular BioSystems, 13(9), 1658-1691. https://doi. org/10.1039/ C7MB00192D
da Costa, Newton C. A., French, Steven (2003). Science and Partial Truth. A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning. New York: Oxford University Press.
Diéguez, Antonio (1998). Realismo científico. Una introducción al debate actual en la filosofía de la ciencia. Málaga: Universidad de Málaga.
Díez, José A., Moulines, C. Ulises (2016). Fundamentos de filosofía de la ciencia. Barcelona: Editorial Ariel.
Feyerabend, Paul K. (1993). Against Method. New York: Verso.
Frigg, Roman, Hartmann, Stephan (2018). Models in science. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2018/entries/models- science/
Frigg, Roman, Nguyen, James (2016). Scientific representation. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/scientific-representation
Giere, Ronald (1988). Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Giere, Ronald (1989). Scientific Rationality as Instrumental Rationality. Hist. Phil. Sci., 20(3), 377-384.
Giere, Ronald (1999). Science Without Laws. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Giere, Ronald (2004). How Models Are Used to Represent Reality. Philosophy of Science, 71, 742-752.
Gradzielski, Michael (2003). Vesicles and vesicle gels. Structure and dynamics of formation. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 15(19), R655-R697. https://doi. org/10.1088/0953-8984/15/19/202
Lopez-Orellana, Rodrigo (2020). Sobre la modelización y la comprensión científicas. Un enfoque inferencial y dinámico aplicado al modelo evo-devo Polypterus de la plasticidad fenotípica. Tesis. Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca.
Magnani, Lorenzo (2017). The Abductive Structure of Scientific Creativity. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Magnani, Lorenzo, Sans Pinillos, Alger, Arfini, S. (2021). Language: The ‘Ultimate Artifact’ to Build, Develop, and Update Worldviews. Topoi. https://doi. org/10.1007/s11245-021-09742-5
McMullin, Ernan (1985). Galilean idealization. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 16(3), 247-273.
Mueller, Paul, Rudin, Donald O., Tien, H. Ti, Wescott, William C. (1962). Reconstitution of cell membrane structure in vitro and its transformation into an excitable system. Nature, 194, 979-980. https://doi.org/10.1038/194979a0
Peirce, Charles Sanders (1931/1958). Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
Putnam, Hilary (2006). El pragmatismo. Un debate abierto (trad. Rosaspini Reynolds). Sevilla: Editorial Gedisa.
Putnam, Hilary (2001). The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Redmond, Juan, Valladares, Diego L., Lopez-Orellana, Rodrigo (2017). Modelizaciones galileanas y objetos ideales. En G. Cuadrado & L. E. Gómez (eds.), Ciencias de la ingeniería en el siglo XXI. Nuevos enfoques en su lógica, enseñanza y práctica (pp. 51-61). Mendoza: Universidad Tecnológica Nacional.
Sans Pinillos, Alger (2017). El lado epistemológico de las abducciones: La creatividad en las verdades-proyectadas. Revista Iberoamericana de Argumentación, 15, 77-91. https://revistas.uam.es/ria/article/view/8573.
Sneed, Joseph D. (1971). The Logical Structure of Mathematical Physics. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
Stegmüller, Wolfgang (1970). Theorie und Erfahrung (Vol. 2). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Stegmüller, Wolfgang (1973). Theorienstrukturen und TheorienDynamik. Zweiter Halbband Theorienstrukturen und Theoriendynamik (Vol. 2/2). Berlin: Springer- Verlag.
Suppes, Patrick (1960). A comparison of the meaning and uses of models in mathematics and the empirical sciences. Synthese, 12(2/3), 287-301.
Suppes, Patrick (1970). Set-Theoretical Structures in Science. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Suppes, Patrick (1974). The axiomatic method in the empirical sciences. En L. Henkin (ed.), Proceedings of the Tarski Symposium (Vol. XXV, pp. 465-469). Providence: American Mathematical Society.
Suppes, Patrick (1989). Representation theory and the analysis of structure. Philosophia Naturalis, 25, 254-268.
Suppes, Patrick (1993). Models and Methods in the Philosophy of Science. Selected Essays. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Tarski, Alfred (1935). Der Wahrheitsbegriff in den formalisierten Sprachen. Studia Philosophica, 1, 261-405.
Tarski, Alfred (1936). Über den Begriff der logischen Folgerungber. En Actes du congrès international de philosophie scientifique. Sorbonne, Paris, 1935 (Vol. VII: Logique, pp. 1-11). Paris: Hermann & Cie, Éditeurs.
Tarski, Alfred (1944). The semantic conception of truth and the foundations of semantics. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 4, 341-376.
Tarski, Alfred (1977). Introducción a la lógica y a la metodología de las ciencias deductivas. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe.
Tarski, Alfred (1983). The concept of truth in formalized languages. En J. Corcoran (ed.), Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics (pp. 152-278). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing.
Thagard, Paul (1988). Computational Philosophy of Science. Massachusetts: MIT Press.
The University of Utah, C.A.M. (2016). Electron microscopy tutorial. The University of Utah. https://advanced-microscopy.utah.edu/ education/electron-micro/index.html
Torretti, Roberto (1990). Creative Understanding. Philosophical Reflections on Physics. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
Trimble, W. S., Cowan, D. M., Scheller, R. H. (1988). Vamp-1: a synaptic vesicle- associated integral membrane protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 85(12), 4538-4542. https:// doi. org/10.1073/PNAS.85.12.4538
Worrall, John (1989). Structural realism: The best of both worlds? Dialectica, 43, 99- 124. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-8361.1989.tb00933.x
Lopez-Orellana, R., & Sans Pinillos, A. (2021). Ronald Giere, Semanticist? A Provocative Question for the Contemporary Debate on Scientific Representation. ArtefaCToS. Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 10(1), 89–106. https://doi.org/10.14201/art202110189106
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