The philosophical literature on simulations has increased dramatically during the past 40
years. Many of its main topics are epistemological. For example, philosophers consider how …

In this paper, I go back to Bas van Fraassen's seminal discussion of perspectivity in the
context of scientific representation as a springboard for distinguishing between two possible …

In the 1950s, John Reber convinced many Californians that the best way to solve the state's
water shortage problem was to dam up the San Francisco Bay. Against massive political …

In The Structure of the World, Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that
there are no objects. At the most fundamental level, modern physics presents us with a world …

Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. PI
is the philosophical field concerned with (1) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature …

Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track: that the
world really is the way our best scientific theories describe it. In his book, Stathis Psillos …

Models are of central importance in many scientific contexts. The centrality of models such
as inflationary models in cosmology, general-circulation models of the global climate, the …

[T] he structure of this physical world consistently moved farther and farther away from the
world of sense and lost its former anthropomorphic character…. Thus the physical world has …

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude as something completed, which in
mathematics is never permissible. Infinity is merely a façon de parler, the real meaning …

The term scientific model picks out a great many things, including scale models, physical
models, sets of mathematical equations, theoretical models, toy models, and so forth. This …