Seeking representations of phenomena: Phenomenological models

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 334-341

  Portides, Demetris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Idealization; Mechanisms; Models; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954602240     PISSN: 00393681     EISSN: 18792510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.11.041     Document Type: Article

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