Nappo, Francesco (2021) What is So Special about Analogue Simulations? [Preprint]
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Contra Dardashti, Thébault, and Winsberg (BJPS, 2017), this paper defends an analysis of arguments from analogue simulations as instances of a familiar kind of inductive inference in science: arguments from material analogy (Hesse, Models and Analogies in Science, Univ Notre Dame Press, 1963). When understood in this way, the capacity of analogue simulations to confirm hypotheses about black holes can be deduced from a general account – fully consistent with a Bayesian standpoint– of how ordinary arguments from material analogy confirm. The proposed analysis makes recommendations about what analogue experiments are worth pursuing that are more credible than Dardashti, Hartmann, Thébault, and Winsberg’s (SHPS, 2019). It also offers a more solid basis for addressing the concerns by Crowther, Linneman, and Wütrich (Synthese, 2019), according to which analogue simulations are incapable of confirming predictions about black holes.
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| Keywords: | analogical reasoning; analogue simulations | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > Models and Idealization Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Francesco Nappo | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2021 05:30 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2021 05:30 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 19954 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > Models and Idealization Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics |
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| Date: | 2021 | ||||||
| URI: | http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19954 |
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