A Model-Theoretic Realist Interpretation of Science

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. The Notion of “Model” in Philosophy of Science

   • Emma Ruttkamp

   Pages 1-11

3. A Model-Theoretic Account of Science

   • Emma Ruttkamp

   Pages 13-62

4. The Statement Account of Science

   • Emma Ruttkamp

   Pages 63-90

5. Variations on the Non-Statement View of Science

   • Emma Ruttkamp

   Pages 91-139

6. A Model-Theoretic Realism

   • Emma Ruttkamp

   Pages 141-180

7. Back Matter

   Pages 181-203

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In this book Emma Ruttkamp demonstrates the power of the full-blown employment of the model-theoretic paradigm in the philosophy of science. Within this paradigm she gives an account of sciences as process and product. She expounds the "received statement" and the "non-statement" views of science, and shows how the model-theoretic approach resolves the spurious tension between these views. In this endeavour she also engages the views of a number of contemporary philosophers of science with affinity to model theory. This text can be read by specialists working in philosophy of science or formal semantics, by logicians working on the structure of theories, and by students in philosophy of science - this text offers a thorough introduction to non-statement accounts of sciences as well as a discussion of the traditional statement account of science.

• non-statement view
• philosophy of science
• realism
• science
• semantics

• Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, South Africa

  Emma Ruttkamp

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