Preface
Introduction
Part 1
1. Theory and Language
2. Models in the Received View
3. Delineating the Observable
4. Framing the Theoretical
Part 2
5. Thinking Through Structures
6. Representing with Structures
7. Family Ties
8. Beyond Structures
Part 3
9. Reconsidering Representation
10. Analogy
11. Abstraction, Approximation, Idealisation
12. Limit Idealisations and Factor Exclusions
Part 4
13. Challenging Subordination
14. What Are Models?
15. Taming Abundance
16. The Model Muddle
Envoi.
Index
Biography
Roman Frigg is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is the winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and a permanent visiting professor in the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. His current work focuses on the nature of scientific models and theories, the foundations of statistical mechanics, and decision making under uncertainty.
