Models and Inferences in Science

Herausgegeben:Ippoliti, Emiliano; Sterpetti, Fabio; Nickles, Tom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book answers long-standing questions on scientific modeling andinference across multiple perspectives and disciplines, including logic,mathematics, physics and medicine. The different chapters cover a variety ofissues, such as the role models play in scientific practice; the way scienceshapes our concept of models; ways of modeling the pursuit of scientificknowledge; the relationship between our concept of models and our concept ofscience. The book also discusses models and scientific explanations; models inthe semantic view of theories; the applicability of mathematical models to thereal world and their effectiveness; the links between models and inferences;and models as a means for acquiring new knowledge. It analyzes differentexamples of models in physics, biology, mathematics and engineering. Writtenfor researchers and graduate students, it provides a cross-disciplinaryreference guide to the notion and the use of models and inferences in science.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistomology and Rational Ethics 25
• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-80287-9
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 403g
• ISBN-13: 9783319802879
• ISBN-10: 3319802879
• Artikelnr.: 53573536

Inhaltsangabe

Modelling and Inferring in Science.- On 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics inthe Natural Sciences'.- Fast and Frugal Heuristicsat Research Frontiers.- ScientificRealism, the Semantic View and Evolutionary Biology.- Models of the Skies.- Models of Scienceand Models in Science.- Mechanistic Models andModeling Disorders.- Chaos and Stochastic Models in Physics.- Ways of Advancing Knowledge. A Lesson from Knot Theoryand Topology.- Models, Idealisations, and Realist Commitments.- Modelling Non-EmpiricalConfirmation.- Mathematics as an Empirical Phenomenon, Subject toModeling.- Scientific Models Are Distributed and Never Abstract. ANaturalistic Perspective.- The Use of Models in Petroleum and Natural GasEngineering.