Marx Wartofsky has been working for many years within an unusual confluence of philosophical problems. He brings to these intersecting problems his comprehensiv

This volume assembles cutting-edge scholarship on scientific understanding, scientific representation, and their delicate interplay. Featuring several articles

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

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

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