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‘Neptune’ between ‘Hesperus’ and ‘Vulcan’: On descriptive names and non-existence
(Springer, 2005)
[EN]This work will focus on some aspects of descriptive names. The New Theory of Reference,
in line with Kripke, takes descriptive names to be proper names. I will argue in this paper that
descriptive names and certain ...
Scientific theories as intervening representations
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2006)
In this paper some classical representational ideas of Hertz and Duhem are used to show how the di-chotomy between representation and intervention can be overcome. More precisely, scientific theories are reconstructed as ...