Models and Idealizations in Science

Models and Idealizations in Science

Artifactual and Fictional Approaches

Cassini, Alejandro; Redmond, Juan

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

05/2022

270

Mole

Inglês

9783030658045

15 a 20 dias

444

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Chapter 1. Introduction: Theories, Models, and Scientific Representations (Alejandro Cassini and Juan Redmond).- Chapter 2. An Artifactual Perspective on Idealization: Constant Capacitance and the Hodgkin and Huxley Model (Natalia Carrillo and Tarja Knuuttila).- Chapter 3. Informative Models: Idealization and Abstraction (Mauricio Suarez and Agnes Bolinska).- Chapter 4. Deidealized Models (Alejandro Cassini).- Chapter 5. Scientific Representation as Ensemble-Plus-Sanding-for: A Moderate Fictionalist Account (Jose A. Diez).- Chapter 6. Seven Myths About the Fiction View of Models (Roman Frigg and James Nguyen).- Chapter 7. Bridging the Gap: The Artefactual View Meets the Fiction View of Models (Fiora Salis).- Chapter 8. Models as Hypostatizations: The Case of Supervaluationism in Semantics (Manuel Garcia-Carpintero).- Chapter 9. Structural Representation and the Ontology of Models (Otavio Bueno).- Chapter 10. Representation and Surrogate Reasoning: A Proposal from Dialogical Pragmatism (Juan Redmond).- Chapter 11. Prediction and Explanation by Theoretical Models:An Instrumentalist Stance (Andres Rivadulla).- Chapter 12. Commented Bibliography on Models and Idealizations (Alejandro Cassini).- Name Index.- Subject Index.-
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Idealized Models;Abstract Objects;Idealizations in Science;Fictional Models;Artefacts;Idealized Representations;Fictionalism;Models Building;An Artifactual Approach to Modeling;Idealization and Modeling;Fiction View of Models;Informative Models;types of non-representationist views of scientific models;fictionalism and artifactualism;models function in different sciences;traditional antirealist construals of scientific laws;artifactualism;non-representationist views of scientific models