On Scientific Representation

From Kant to a New Philosophy of Science

By: Giovanni Boniolo

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Hardcover | 15 November 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Scientific concepts, laws, theories, models and thought experiments are representations but uniquely different. In On Scientific Representation each is given a full philosophical exploration within an original, coherent philosophical framework that is strongly rooted in the Kantian tradition (Kant, Hertz, Vaihinger, Cassirer). Through a revisionist historical approach, Boniolo shows how the Kantian tradition can help us renew and rethink contemporary issues in epistemology and the philosophy of science.

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List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. xi
Concepts and Objects	p. 1
The descent of substance and the ascent of function	p. 2
Some notes on Aristotle's theory	p. 5
Moving to Kant's theory	p. 14
Cassirer: from class-concept to function-concept	p. 22
Frege: from the concept of function to the function-concept	p. 28
Cassirer, Frege...and Kant	p. 43
Concepts as representations and as rules	p. 45
The proposal	p. 49
Reality	p. 62
Phenomenological description and transcendental constitution	p. 66
Unobservability and observability by inference	p. 76
A short conclusion	p. 80
Laws of Nature	p. 82
The failure of the Humean and pre-Humean attempts	p. 85
Schlick: the dawn of the contemporary debate	p. 85
Reichenbach: the search for the explication of the notion of 'law'	p. 89
Nagel: the standardization of Schlick's problem	p. 96
The counterfactual way	p. 99
Modality and the new metaphysicians	p. 102
Should we abandon philosophy?	p. 106
Back to Kant	p. 108
The status quaestionis	p. 108
The transcendental level	p. 110
The metaphysical level	p. 119
The empirical level	p. 127
The empirical laws and the second analogy of experience	p. 134
The unity of system	p. 144
The discovery of laws	p. 152
Causality and purposiveness	p. 155
Lawfulness	p. 156
Schlick's problem	p. 158
The system of lawness and the constitution of lawfulness	p. 159
Theories, Models, Thought Experiments and Counterfactuals	p. 170
Theories and models: old hat?	p. 171
Theories as hypothetical representations of the world	p. 171
Models as fictive representations of the world	p. 173
As if the world were	p. 174
Theories and models: two kinds of representation	p. 176
Models and mathematical schemes	p. 192
Models and mathematized representations	p. 193
Ideal-typical models	p. 195
Thought experiments	p. 197
Newton and Mach: a case of rhetorical thought experiment	p. 197
Exploratory/clarifying thought experiments	p. 199
Thought experiments and real experiments	p. 201
What thought experiments are	p. 203
Conclusions on fictive representations	p. 204
Fictions and counterfactuals	p. 204
A well-known analytical[subscript l-l] history	p. 205
A less-known analytical[subscript h] history	p. 205
Counterfactual proposition and counterfactual argument	p. 210
The judge's hermeneutical region	p. 212
The analytical[subscript h] approach	p. 218
Notes	p. 219
Bibliography	p. 235
Index	p. 245
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