Add to ORKGRobert Batterman and others have argued that certain idealizing explanations have an asymptotic form: they account for a state of affairs or behavior by showing that it emerges "in the limit". Asymptotic idealizations are interesting in many ways, but is there anything special about them as idealizations? To understand their role in science, must we augment our philosophical theories of idealization? This paper uses simple examples of asymptotic idealization in population genetics to argue for an affirmative answer and proposes a general schema for asymptotic idealization, drawing on insights from Batterman's treatment and from John Norton's subsequent critique
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In this article we argue that idealizations and limiting cases in models play an exploratory role in...
The “universality” of critical phenomena is much discussed in philosophy of scientific explanation, ...
Robert Batterman and others have argued that certain idealizing explanations have an asymptotic form...
In this paper we present a new framework of idealization in biology. We characterize idealizations a...
We offer a framework for organizing the literature regarding the debates revolving around infinite i...
Many phenomena pose interesting “fundamental” questions for both physics and philosophy of science. ...
In this paper, I first give a brief summary of a critique of the traditional theories of approximati...
In this paper, a criticism of the traditional theories of approximation and idealization is given. A...
The paper discusses the recent literature on abstraction/idealization in connection with the \parad...
Highly idealized models, such as the Hawk-Dove game, are pervasive in biological theorizing. We argu...
Idealization is ubiquitous in human cognition, and so is the inclination to be puzzled by it: what t...
Idealizations are rampant and unchecked in science. That is, they exist throughout our best represen...
It is proposed that we use the term "approximation" for inexact description of a target system and "...
The notion of emergence has received much renewed attention recently. Most of the authors I review (...
It is proposed that we use the term “approximation” for inexact description of a target system and “...
In this article we argue that idealizations and limiting cases in models play an exploratory role in...
The “universality” of critical phenomena is much discussed in philosophy of scientific explanation, ...
Robert Batterman and others have argued that certain idealizing explanations have an asymptotic form...
In this paper we present a new framework of idealization in biology. We characterize idealizations a...
We offer a framework for organizing the literature regarding the debates revolving around infinite i...
Many phenomena pose interesting “fundamental” questions for both physics and philosophy of science. ...
In this paper, I first give a brief summary of a critique of the traditional theories of approximati...
In this paper, a criticism of the traditional theories of approximation and idealization is given. A...
The paper discusses the recent literature on abstraction/idealization in connection with the \parad...
Highly idealized models, such as the Hawk-Dove game, are pervasive in biological theorizing. We argu...
Idealization is ubiquitous in human cognition, and so is the inclination to be puzzled by it: what t...
Idealizations are rampant and unchecked in science. That is, they exist throughout our best represen...
It is proposed that we use the term "approximation" for inexact description of a target system and "...
The notion of emergence has received much renewed attention recently. Most of the authors I review (...
It is proposed that we use the term “approximation” for inexact description of a target system and “...
In this article we argue that idealizations and limiting cases in models play an exploratory role in...
The “universality” of critical phenomena is much discussed in philosophy of scientific explanation, ...