Modeling multiscale patterns: active matter, minimal models, and explanatory autonomy.
Both ecologists and statistical physicists use a variety of highly idealized models to study active matter and self-organizing critical phenomena. In this paper, I show how universality classes play a crucial role in justifying the application of highly idealized ‘minimal’ models to explain and unde...
| Published in: | Synthese Vol. 200; no. 6; pp. 1 - 36 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2022
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |