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Kenncode: 135860

Tarja Knuuttila, Universität Wien

Models as Representations and Artefacts

Abstract
Physical scale models, graphs, systems of equations, simulations, animats, hybrots, laboratory populations, and synthetic intracellular devices are all examples of models used in scientific practice. However, the philosophical discourse has encountered difficulties in addressing such a wide range of models. Although the construction of many such complex entities has been extensively detailed in the philosophical literature, most philosophical accounts of models fail to address their multimodality or materiality from an epistemic perspective. I propose that the representational approach to modeling is mainly to blame, as it tends to get too bogged down in what is thought of as the model's “underlying structure” or goes completely deflationary. To get a grasp on the material-cum-semiotic character of models, I approach them from the artefactual perspective, addressing the purposes models were built for and considering the epistemic affordances of their mode, media, and design. I will present some scientific examples, concentrating especially on the study of genetic circuits within newly emerging synthetic biology.

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