Add to ORKGI explore a challenge that idealisations pose to scientific realism and argue that the realist can best accommodate idealisations by capitalising on certain modal features of idealised models that are underwritten by laws of nature
In this paper, a criticism of the traditional theories of approximation and idealization is given. A...
Scientific realism asserts that the methods of science, combined with the intellectual powers of hum...
The practice of scientific modelling often resorts to hypothetical, false, idealised, targetless, pa...
I explore a challenge that idealisations pose to scientific realism and argue that the realist can b...
In this paper, I first give a brief summary of a critique of the traditional theories of approximati...
The fact that many scientific models are idealised, and therefore incorporate known falsehoods, seem...
Catherine Elgin has recently argued that a nonfactive conception of understanding is required to acc...
Idealizations are rampant and unchecked in science. That is, they exist throughout our best represen...
Two types of idealization in theory construction are distinguished, and the distinction is used to g...
My aim in this paper is to articulate an account of scientific modeling that reconciles pluralism ab...
Scientific realism is a thesis about the success of science. Most traditionally: science has been so...
The paper first raises the problem concerning the confirmation of idealized theories in science and ...
There is increasing attention to the centrality of idealization in science. One common view is tha...
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the problems that use of idealizations in science leads to....
Intuitively, science progresses from truth to truth. A glance at history quickly reveals that this i...
In this paper, a criticism of the traditional theories of approximation and idealization is given. A...
Scientific realism asserts that the methods of science, combined with the intellectual powers of hum...
The practice of scientific modelling often resorts to hypothetical, false, idealised, targetless, pa...
I explore a challenge that idealisations pose to scientific realism and argue that the realist can b...
In this paper, I first give a brief summary of a critique of the traditional theories of approximati...
The fact that many scientific models are idealised, and therefore incorporate known falsehoods, seem...
Catherine Elgin has recently argued that a nonfactive conception of understanding is required to acc...
Idealizations are rampant and unchecked in science. That is, they exist throughout our best represen...
Two types of idealization in theory construction are distinguished, and the distinction is used to g...
My aim in this paper is to articulate an account of scientific modeling that reconciles pluralism ab...
Scientific realism is a thesis about the success of science. Most traditionally: science has been so...
The paper first raises the problem concerning the confirmation of idealized theories in science and ...
There is increasing attention to the centrality of idealization in science. One common view is tha...
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the problems that use of idealizations in science leads to....
Intuitively, science progresses from truth to truth. A glance at history quickly reveals that this i...
In this paper, a criticism of the traditional theories of approximation and idealization is given. A...
Scientific realism asserts that the methods of science, combined with the intellectual powers of hum...
The practice of scientific modelling often resorts to hypothetical, false, idealised, targetless, pa...