In this paper, I attempt to sketch a dialectical approach on scientific representations and their role in scientific cognition. In my understanding, scientific representations can be construed as ‘tools’ mediating scientific cognition. These ‘tools’ are products of our cognitive activity, by which we signify which features of certain objects or states of affairs should be embodied in abstractive representations of them. In such a context, I explore the merits of bringing some ideas of thinkers whose work is underestimated in the relevant discussion nowadays (such as K. Marx, E.V. Ilyenkov, L.S. Vygotsky, M. Wartofsky) in dialogue with currently discussed approaches.
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Kilakos, D. (2016). Ideality, symbolic mediation and scientific cognition: The tool-like function of scientific representations. In Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (Vol. 27, pp. 205–218). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38983-7_11
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