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The '''semantic view of theories''' is a position in the [[philosophy of science]] that holds that a scientific theory can be identified with a collection of models. The semantic view of theories was originally proposed by [[Patrick Suppes]] in “A Comparison of the Meaning and Uses of Models in Mathematics and the Empirical Sciences”<ref>Suppes, P. (1960), “A Comparison of the Meaning and Uses of Models in Mathematics
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The '''semantic view of theories''' is a position in the [[philosophy of science]] that holds that a [[scientific theory]] can be identified with a collection of models. The semantic view of theories was originally proposed by [[Patrick Suppes]] in “A Comparison of the Meaning and Uses of Models in Mathematics and the Empirical Sciences”<ref>Suppes, P. (1960), “A Comparison of the Meaning and Uses of Models in Mathematics
and the Empirical Sciences,” Synthese 12: 287-301.</ref> as a reaction against the [[received view of theories]] popular among the [[Logical positivism| logical positivists]]. Many varieties of the semantic view propose identifying theories with a class of set-theoretic models in the Tarskian sense, <ref>Suppes, P. (1960) and da Costa, Newton C. A., and Steven French (1990), “The Model-Theoretic Approach in the Philosophy of Science”, Philosophy of Science 57: 248–265. </ref> while others specify models in the mathematical language stipulated by the field of which the theory is a member<ref>van Fraassen, Bas C. (1980), The Scientific Image. Oxford: Clarendon. and Suppe, Frederick (1989), The Semantic Conception of Theories and Scientific Realism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.</ref>
and the Empirical Sciences,” Synthese 12: 287-301.</ref> as a reaction against the [[received view of theories]] popular among the [[Logical positivism| logical positivists]]. Many varieties of the semantic view propose identifying theories with a class of set-theoretic models in the Tarskian sense, <ref>Suppes, P. (1960) and da Costa, Newton C. A., and Steven French (1990), “The Model-Theoretic Approach in the Philosophy of Science”, Philosophy of Science 57: 248–265. </ref> while others specify models in the mathematical language stipulated by the field of which the theory is a member<ref>van Fraassen, Bas C. (1980), The Scientific Image. Oxford: Clarendon. and Suppe, Frederick (1989), The Semantic Conception of Theories and Scientific Realism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.</ref>
The semantic view of theories is a position in the philosophy of science that holds that a scientific theory can be identified with a collection of models. The semantic view of theories was originally proposed by Patrick Suppes in “A Comparison of the Meaning and Uses of Models in Mathematics and the Empirical Sciences”[1] as a reaction against the received view of theories popular among the logical positivists. Many varieties of the semantic view propose identifying theories with a class of set-theoretic models in the Tarskian sense, [2] while others specify models in the mathematical language stipulated by the field of which the theory is a member[3]
↑Suppes, P. (1960), “A Comparison of the Meaning and Uses of Models in Mathematics
and the Empirical Sciences,” Synthese 12: 287-301.
↑Suppes, P. (1960) and da Costa, Newton C. A., and Steven French (1990), “The Model-Theoretic Approach in the Philosophy of Science”, Philosophy of Science 57: 248–265.
↑van Fraassen, Bas C. (1980), The Scientific Image. Oxford: Clarendon. and Suppe, Frederick (1989), The Semantic Conception of Theories and Scientific Realism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
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