Against "Possibilist" Interpretations of Climate Models.
Climate scientists frequently employ heavily idealized models. How should these models be interpreted? Some philosophers have advanced a possibilist interpretation: climate models stand in for possible scenarios that could occur but do not provide information about how probable those scenarios are....
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 90; no. 5; pp. 1417 - 1427 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2023
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