SOME READINGS to be taken up along the way:
- Boltzmann, Ludwig 1904 Encyclopedia article “Model”
- D’Agostino, Salvo “The Bild Conception of Physical Theory: Helmholtz, Hertz, and Schrödinger“. Physics in Perspective 6 (2004), 372–389.
- Giere, Ronald Scientific Perspectivism, Chapters 3 and 4
- Ladyman, James ‘Structural realism: epistemology or metaphysics?’, Studies in the Hist. and Philos.of Science, 29A (1998), 409-24.
- Newman, M. H. A. "Mr. Russell's causal theory of perception", Mind n. s. 37 (1928), 137-148.
- Reichenbach, Hans Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge, Ch. 4
- Mach, Ernst selection, on the history of thermometry and time measurement.
- Sterrett Susan G. “Models of machines and models of phenomena” Internat. Studies in the Philos. of Science 20 (2006), 69-80
- Stevens and Luce, seminal articles on measurement
- Suarez, Mauricio “An Inferential Conception of Scientific Representation”, Philosophy of Science 71 (2004), 767-779.
- Suarez, Mauricio “Scientific representation: Against similarity and isomorphism”, Internat. Studies in the Philos. of Science, 17 (2003), 225-244.
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