Mauricio Suárez

It was a great pleasure to talk to Ricardo Lopes about Inference and Representation. A long standing invitation to his Dissenter podcast, and we finally made it!

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"An account of representation must make room for misrepresentation in all its different varieties."

"Representation is not a success term. You can represent something and do it very poorly, with very little success."

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yes, I discuss isomorphism, partial isomorphism, and homomorphism extensively. But only and always in the context of the work these structural notions may perform in models in empirical science. I come out strongly against the former two but I am more amenable to the latter.

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#1215 Mauricio Suárez - Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science YouTube video by The Dissenter

New episode (1215), with Dr. Mauricio Suárez (@msuarez.bsky.social). We talk about his great book, Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science. #Philosophy #Science

YouTube: youtu.be/jMSVX0fQJYo
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It was a great pleasure to talk to Ricardo Lopes about Inference and Representation. A long standing invitation to his Dissenter podcast, and we finally made it!

I don't, although on my deflationist view there turns out to be no difference in kind between mathematical and scientific representation...

I do discuss mathematical models in science though...

"Nothing represents unless it has the capacity to license some surrogative inferences ... however minimal, inappropriate, misleading, or incorrect these inferences might be’ (Mauricio Suárez, 2024, p. 157)

Excellent review of Inference & Representation by @guicogsci.bsky.social in Philosophy, the journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

Welcome to Bluesky, Gui!

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It was an honor and a privilege to study under, and work with, Bas at San Francisco State. In particular, his advanced logic course brings back so many wonderful and impactful memories. I can't think of a more deserving philosopher for such a prize! #philsci #philosophy

Bas van Fraassen Wins Schock Prize - Daily Nous Bastiaan "Bas" van Fraassen, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. The Schock Prizes are bestowed by the Royal ...

Bas van Fraassen has won the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy

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Truly historic, for Latin America, Europe, and the world: youtu.be/9XRaHzTEOXs?...

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New paper just published in Synthese: Instrumental Understanding link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In this paper I start developing an account of pragmatic understanding fit for an epistemology of scientific instruments, drawing especially on Davis Baird's Thing Knowledge. #philsci #philsky

Wonderful. Congratulations. Is it coming out in the special issue in honour of Paul (Humphreys)?

Some excellent jobs in a new teaching program in #xrisk in Germany – please share. Link to the page for the course below.

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Excellent abstract

2025 has been a difficult year, which I will be happy to leave behind. Yet, it has turned into my most prolific year in terms of publications. The below 7 papers / book chapters are amongst my best ever. Some were researched and written in previous years, obviously. Still, remarkable productivity.

Ditto Martín!

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Inference and Representation by Mauricio Suárez: Reply by the Author.

(2025g) "Inference and Representation: Reply by the author", Book Forum on Inference and Representation: A Study in Modelling Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 114, December 2025:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Feynman Diagrams and Peircean Semiotics | 7 | A Study in Pragmatism | The nature and representational uses of Feynman diagrams have been much debated in contemporary philosophy of science. The discussion has consequences for the

(2025f) "Feynman Diagrams and Peircean Semiotics: A Study in Pragmatism" (with Carmen Sánchez-Ovcharov), Chapter 5 in R. Gronda, Jannack, M. and Marchetti, G. Eds., Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, London: Routledge
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Inference and Negative Analogy: Lessons on Analogical Reasoning from Clinical Medical Practice Mary Hesse’s work on the role of analogical reasoning in science has set the disciplinary standard. Her classic Models and Analogies in Science (1966) spearheaded the emergence of the philosophy...

(2025e) "Inference and Negative Analogy: Lessons from Clinical Medical Practice" (with Helene Scott-Fordsmand), Chapter 12 in Pietro Gori, Ed. (forth), Mary B. Hesse (1924 - 2016): Metaphors, Models, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge. Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 215-233: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

(2025d) "The Logic of Quantum Theory Revisited", Analysis: Journal of Philosophical Research 12 (1), 47-92.12 (1), 47-92:
papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.ph...

Probabilistic empiricism - European Journal for Philosophy of Science Modal Empiricism in philosophy of science proposes to understand the possibility of modal knowledge from experience by replacing talk of possible worlds with talk of possible situations, which are coa...

(2025c), "Probabilistic Empiricism" (with Quentin Ruyant), European Journal for Philosophy of Science (EJPS), 15 (23): doi.org/10.1007/s131...
Preprint available at Phil Sci archive (Pittsburgh, March 2025): philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24924/

The Possibilities in Propensities | 6 | Emergence and Modality | Mauri The complex nexus of chance (CNC) is a pluralistic account of the application of objective chance to statistical modelling practice. It refrains from reducing

(2025b) "The Possibilities in Propensities: Emergence and Modality", Chapter 4 in Tarja Knuuttila, Till Grüne-Yanoff, Rami Koskinen, and Ylwa Sjolin-Wirling, Eds., Modeling the Possible: Perspectives from Philosophy of Science, Routledge: London, pp. 82-99:
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

(2025a) "Plurality and Identity: On the Educational Relations Between Chemistry and Physics" (with Pedro Sánchez-Gómez), Chemistry Education Research and Practice (Chem. Educ. Res. Pract.), vol. 26, pp. 53-64: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...