The semantic approach to scientific theories

Bas C. van Fraassen

pp. 105-124

in: Nancy J. Nersessian (ed), The process of science, Berlin, Springer, 1987

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is not to be new or original, but to provide a concise exposition of a certain approach in philosophy of science, at the hands of a loosely associated group of contemporary philosophers.^* I do not want anyone to suffer from guilt by asociation, so I should emphasize that any two authors mentioned here may agree on only a few aspects of the discussed approach, and disagree on others.