Models and Idealizations in Science
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Models and Idealizations in Science

Artifactual and Fictional Approaches

Herausgegeben: Cassini, Alejandro; Redmond, Juan
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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 an...