Abstract

Juan Redmond presents an inferential conception of scientific representation based on the ludic perspective of dialogical pragmatism. He conceives of his proposal as an answer to the question “How models are used to represent the world?” Consequently, he lines up with the host of pragmatic approaches that stress the importance of the notion of use and users for representing and modeling. The main point of his proposal is that users or agents use models to represent their targets doing inferences concerning those targets on the basis of reasoning dialogically about the models.