Models Representation and the Scientific Understanding
Marx Wartofsky has been working for many years within an unusual confluence of philosophical problems. He brings to these intersecting problems his comprehensive intelligence, at once imaginative and rigorous, analytic and historical. He is a philosopher'
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SYNTHESE LIBRARY
STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY,
LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Managing Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA,
Academy of Finland, Stanford University, and Florida State University
Editors: ROBERT S. COHEN, DONALD DAVIDSON,
Boston University University of Chicago
GABRIEL NUCHELMANS, WESLEY C. SALMON,
University of Leyden
University of Arizona
VOLUME 129
BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE EDITED BY ROBERT S. COHEN AND MARX W. WARTOFSKY
VOLUME XLVIII
MARX W. WARTOFSKY
MODELS Representation and the
Scient~fic
Understanding
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Wartofsky, Marx W. Models. (Boston studies in the philosophy of science; v. 48) (Synthese library; v. 129) Includes bibliographical references and index. I. Science-Methodology-Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Science-Philosophy-Addresses, essays, lectures. l. Title. II. Series. Q174.B67 vol. 48 [QI75.3] 501s [501'.84] ISBN-13: 978-90-277-0947-9
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EDITORIAL PREFACE
Marx Wartofsky has been working for many years within an unusual confluence of philosophical problems. He brings to these intersecting problems his comprehensive intelligence, at once imaginative and rigorous, analytic and historical. He is a philosopher's philosopher, but also Everyman's. Wartofsky is philosopher of the natural and the social sciences, of perception, esthetics and the creative arts, of the 18th century French and the 19th century Germans, of politics and morality, ofthe methods and morals of medicine, and it is plain, of all human existence. To a colleague, he seems Jack-of-all-philosophical-trades, and master of them too. The reader soon will learn that Wartofsky is a genial, lucid and relaxed philosophical companion, deeply serious but without noticeable anxiety. I need not highlight these selected epistemological papers gathered as, and about, Models, since Wartofsky's own introductory remarks are helpful and stimulating in that respect. I need only, after 21 years of friendship and collaboration with him, warn the reader to beware of how profound and provocative these papers will show themselves to be beneath their good-humored and swiftly-flowing surface. And I must publicly note the pleasure with which I
