Natural law, the modeling relation, and two roots of perspectivism.
Scientific perspectivism, or perspectival realism, is a view according to which scientific knowledge is neither utterly objective nor independent of the world “as it is”, but always tied to some particular ways of conceptualization and interaction with Nature. In the present paper, I employ Robert R...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 201; no. 3; pp. 1 - 36 |
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Mar2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=162096853&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 162096853 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00397857 4LI jtl: Synthese issn: 00397857 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2023 vid: 201 iid: 3 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 162096853 10.1007/s11229-023-04092-8 ppf: 1 ppct: 35 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 773KB tig: atl: Natural law, the modeling relation, and two roots of perspectivism. aug: au: Weckström, Markus Mikael affil: Department of Philosophy, History, and Art Studies, University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 40A, 00014, Helsinki, Finland sug: keyword: Complex systems Organicism Perspectival realism Perspectivism Robert Rosen ab: Scientific perspectivism, or perspectival realism, is a view according to which scientific knowledge is neither utterly objective nor independent of the world “as it is”, but always tied to some particular ways of conceptualization and interaction with Nature. In the present paper, I employ Robert Rosen’s concept of the modeling relation for arguing that there are two basic reasons why our knowledge of natural systems is perspectival in this sense. The first of these pertains to the dualism between a system and its environment, which is necessarily imposed by a scientist focusing on the former. The second pertains to the complexity of complex systems; a complex system understood as a system in which different kinds of causal entailments intertwine together. As I discuss in the paper besides developing the argument, perspectivism thus understood ties together several issues ranging from organicism to emergentism and to processual philosophy, and from the ceteris paribus talk of biology to the measurement problem of quantum mechanics. I also discuss Rosen’s relational formalisms as a concrete example of how perspectival epistemology might directly suggest novel strategies and practices of doing theoretical science. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Synthese is a copyright of Springer, 2023. All Rights Reserved. item: Synthese holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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