Kant e o problema da origem das representações elementares: apontamentos

Il s'agit d'examiner l'origine des représentations fondamentales (formes de la réceptivité et formes intelectuelles )face à la critique faite par Kant des idées innées et abstraites.Trata-se de considerara origem das representações fundamentais (formas de receptividade e formas intelectuais), face à crítica de Kant às idéias inatas e abstratas.UNESP Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Departamento de FilosofiaUNESP Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Departamento de Filosofi

Fictions, Conditionals, and Stellar Astrophysics

This article argues in favour of an inferential role for fictions in scientific modelling. The argument proceeds by means of a detailed case study, namely models of the internal structure of stars in stellar astrophysics. The main assumptions in such models are described, and it is argued that they are best understood as useful fictions. The role that conditionals play in these models is explained, and it is argued that fictional assumptions play an important role as either background or antecedent conditions. I then expand on the argument for the compatibility of fictions and scientific realism. I argue that realism and antirealism plausibly offer correspondingly different accounts of the semantics of these fictional conditionals