Radical artifactualism

Abstract A powerful idea put forward in the recent philosophy of science literature is that scientific models are best understood as instruments, tools or, more generally, artifacts. This has thus far been developed combination with traditional representational approach: accordingly, current artifactualist accounts treat tools. But artifactualism and representationalism independent views, adopting one does not require acceptance other. paper argues a leaner version artifactualism, free representationalist assumptions, both desirable viable. Taking seriously artifacts can help us philosophically to make sense how why modeling works even without reference representation.