Poliseli, Luana and Coutinho, Jeferson and Viana, Blandina and Russo, Federica and El-Hani, Charbel (2022) Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building. [Preprint]
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This article addresses the contributions of the literature on the new mechanistic philosophy of science for the scientific practice of model building in ecology. This is reflected in a one-to-one interdisciplinary collaboration between an ecologist and a philosopher of science during science-in-the-making. We argue that the identification, reconstruction and understanding of mechanisms is context-sensitive, and for this case study mechanistic modeling did not present a normative role but a heuristic one. We expect our study to provide useful epistemic tools for the improvement of empirically-driven work in the debates about mechanistic explanations of ecological phenomena.
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| Additional Information: | BIPH-D-21-00018R3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keywords: | scientific practice, interdisciplinarity, mechanistic modeling, heuristics, ecology. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Philosophers of Science |
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| Depositing User: | dr Luana Poliseli | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 18 May 2022 13:26 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 18 May 2022 13:26 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Item ID: | 20620 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Philosophers of Science |
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| Date: | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20620 |
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