書目名稱 | Models and Idealizations in Science |
副標(biāo)題 | Artifactual and Fict |
編輯 | Alejandro Cassini,Juan Redmond |
視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/637/636740/636740.mp4 |
概述 | Explores two recent approaches to scientific modeling: artifactualism and fictionalism.Investigates how the different kinds of models that scientists use in practice are idealized and deidealized.Cons |
叢書名稱 | Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science |
圖書封面 |  |
描述 | .This book provides both an introduction to the philosophy of scientific modeling and a contribution to the discussion and clarification of two recent philosophical conceptions of models: artifactualism and fictionalism. These can be viewed as different stances concerning the standard representationalist account of scientific models. By better understanding these two alternative views, readers will gain a deeper insight into what a model is as well as how models function in different sciences..Fictionalism has been a traditional epistemological stance related to antirealist construals of laws and theories, such as instrumentalism and inferentialism. By contrast, the more recent fictional view of models holds that scientific models must be conceived of as the same kind of entities as literary characters and places. This approach is essentially an answer to the ontological question concerning the nature of models, which in principle is not incompatible with a representationalistaccount of the function of models. .The artifactual view of models is an approach according to which scientific models are epistemic artifacts, whose main function is not to represent the phenomena but rather |
出版日期 | Book 2021 |
關(guān)鍵詞 | Idealized Models; Abstract Objects; Idealizations in Science; Fictional Models; Artefacts; Idealized Repr |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65802-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-65804-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-65802-1Series ISSN 2214-9775 Series E-ISSN 2214-9783 |
issn_series | 2214-9775 |
copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 |