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work_j3wp6eb7bbe2zimo2rw6tf4ay4	Michela Massimi	Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective	2009	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2349	122	48	https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/review-of-bas-van-fraassen-scientific-representation-paradoxes-of-perspective(20ffb444-0883-4888-85df-10e0f771d31a).html Scientific representation is a fast-­‐growing topic in contemporary philosophy of science. how scientific models represent phenomena raises specific questions about the very nature of of representing, and scientific representation is perspectival in the same sense as Dürer's 'art of distinction between the problem of representation as it appears in the sciences, and as it appears in mathematical structure represent a concrete physical entity?' (243), which leads van Fraassen back problem of scientific representation, to the final diagnosis of the divide between philosophy and the Nelson Goodman and most recent debates on scientific representation, van Fraassen makes the contemporary problem of scientific representation. Van Fraassen uses Putnam's model-­‐theoretic argument to fight the metaphysical realist view By shifting attention to the user-­‐dependent notion of scientific representation, van Fraassen world), while appearances are the way phenomena 'look like' in a given measurement set-­‐up, and conflated with the philosopher's problem of the external world, according to van Fraassen.	./cache/work_j3wp6eb7bbe2zimo2rw6tf4ay4.pdf	./txt/work_j3wp6eb7bbe2zimo2rw6tf4ay4.txt