Introduction: Theories, Models, And Scientific Representations

Alejandro Cassini and Juan Redmond offer an elementary but fairly complete and extensive introduction to the present state of the philosophy of scientific models. It was written with the purpose of providing the readers an accessible account of the main topics that have been discussed and elaborated on by the most distinguished philosophers of science in the last two decades. It also provides a brief historical narrative of the rise and the early development of the philosophy on scientific models since the middle of the twentieth century.