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(2008) Synthese 161 (1).
The scientific use of "representation" and "function"
avoiding explanatory vacuity
Joel Kenton Press
pp. 119-139
Nearly all of the ways philosophers currently attempt to define the terms ‘representation’ and ‘function’ undermine the scientific application of those terms by rendering the scientific explanations in which they occur vacuous. Since this is unacceptable, we must develop analyses of these terms that avoid this vacuity.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-006-9154-5
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Kenton Press, J. (2008). The scientific use of "representation" and "function": avoiding explanatory vacuity. Synthese 161 (1), pp. 119-139.