Modeling without representation

Synthese

Volumn 190, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 3611-3623

  Isaac, Alistair M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Methodology; Modeling; Pragmatism; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888134247     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-012-0213-9     Document Type: Article

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