Scientific Representation and Theoretical Equivalence. Nguyen, J. Philosophy of Science, 84(5):982–995, December, 2017. Paper doi abstract bibtex In this article I connect two debates in the philosophy of science: the questions of scientific representation and both model and theoretical equivalence. I argue that by paying attention to how a model is used to draw inferences about its target system, we can define a notion of theoretical equivalence that turns on whether models license the same claims about the same target systems. I briefly consider the implications of this for two questions that have recently been discussed in the context of the formal philosophy of science.
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