Radical artifactualism

Sanches de Oliveira, Guilherme

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Radical artifactualism

dc.contributor.author	Sanches de Oliveira, Guilherme
dc.contributor.department	Filosofía
dc.date.accessioned	2026-02-24T12:36:27Z
dc.date.available	2026-02-24T12:36:27Z
dc.date.copyright	© The Author(s) 2022
dc.date.issued	2022-06-02
dc.description.abstract	A powerful idea put forward in the recent philosophy of science literature is that scientific models are best understood as instruments, tools or, more generally, artifacts. This idea has thus far been developed in combination with the more traditional representational approach: accordingly, current artifactualist accounts treat models as representational tools. But artifactualism and representationalism are independent views, and adopting one does not require acceptance of the other. This paper argues that a leaner version of artifactualism, free of representationalist assumptions, is both desirable and viable. Taking seriously the idea that models are artifacts can help us philosophically to make sense of how and why scientific modeling works even without reference to representation.
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dc.format.extent	33
dc.identifier.citation	Sanches de Oliveira, G. (2022) Radical Artifactualism. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 12(2), 1-33. DOI: 10.1007/s13194-022-00462-0
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-022-00462-0
dc.identifier.eissn	1879-4920
dc.identifier.issn	1879-4912
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/212201
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Springer
dc.relation	Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
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dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International
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dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Representation
dc.subject	Tool use
dc.subject	Material engagement
dc.subject	Pragmatism
dc.subject	Scientific modeling
dc.subject.ods	No relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible
dc.title	Radical artifactualism
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