Idealized models, holistic distortions, and universality.
In this paper, I first argue against various attempts to justify idealizations in scientific models that explain by showing that they are harmless and isolable distortions of irrelevant features. In response, I propose a view in which idealized models are characterized as providing holistically dist...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 195; no. 6; pp. 2795 - 2820 |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
Springer Nature
Jun2018
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=129833587&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 129833587 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00397857 4LI jtl: Synthese issn: 00397857 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2018 vid: 195 iid: 6 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 129833587 10.1007/s11229-017-1357-4 ppf: 2795 ppct: 25 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1020KB tig: atl: Idealized models, holistic distortions, and universality. aug: au: Rice, Collin affil: Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Ave, 19010, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA su: Scientific models Universalism (Philosophy) Theory of knowledge Relativity Ideals (Aesthetics) sug: subj: Scientific models Universalism (Philosophy) Theory of knowledge Relativity Ideals (Aesthetics) keyword: Explanation Idealization Models Universality ab: In this paper, I first argue against various attempts to justify idealizations in scientific models that explain by showing that they are harmless and isolable distortions of irrelevant features. In response, I propose a view in which idealized models are characterized as providing holistically distorted representations of their target system(s). I then suggest an alternative way that idealized modeling can be justified by appealing to universality. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Synthese is a copyright of Springer, 2018. All Rights Reserved. item: Synthese holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2018 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|