Point-particle explanations: the case of gravitational waves.
This paper explores the role of physically impossible idealizations in model-based explanation. We do this by examining the explanation of gravitational waves from distant stellar objects using models that contain point-particle idealizations. Like infinite idealizations in thermodynamics, biology a...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 196; no. 5; pp. 1809 - 1830 |
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Springer Nature
May2019
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