Integrating Inferentialism about Physical Theories and Representations

A Case for Phase Space Diagrams

Bibliographic Data

ID22329414
AuthorsJavier Anta (0000-0002-4409-7719, Logos Technologies (United States), corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume53
Issue158
Publication date2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-1503 • E-ISSN: 1870-4905
PublisherUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (PUBLISHER • MX)
DOI10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2021.1270
OpenAlexW3174476521
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

This paper argues for an integrated inferential conception about theories and representations and its role in accounting for the theoretical value of philosophically disregarded representational practices, such as the systematic use of phase space diagrams within the theoretical context of statistical mechanics. This proposal would rely on both inferentialism about scientific representations (Suárez 2004) and inferentialism about particular physical theories (Wallace 2017). I defend that both perspectives somehow converge into an integrated inferentialism by means of the thesis of theories as being composed of representations, as defended from the representational semantic conception defended by Suárez and Pero (2019)

Cognitive science · Epistemology · Linguistics · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology

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