Jacobs, Caspar (2023) Are Models Our Tools Not Our Masters? Synthese, 202 (121). ISSN 1573-0964
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It is often claimed that one can avoid the kind of underdetermination that is a typical consequence of symmetries in physics by stipulating that symmetry-related models represent the same state of affairs (Leibniz Equivalence). But recent commentators (Dasgupta 2011; Pooley 2021; Pooley and Read 2021; Teitel 2021a) have responded that claims about the representational capacities of models are irrelevant to the issue of underdetermination, which concerns possible worlds themselves. In this paper I distinguish two versions of this objection: (1) that a theory’s formalism does not (fully) determine the space of physical possibilities, and (2) that the relevant notion of possibility is not physical possibility. I offer a refutation of each.
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| Keywords: | symmetries, models, representational capacities, leibniz equivalence, underdetermination, indeterminism, invariance | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Structure of Theories Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Depositing User: | Caspar Jacobs | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2023 14:28 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2023 14:28 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 22641 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Synthese | ||||||
| Publisher: | Springer (Springer Science+Business Media B.V.) | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04352-7 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Structure of Theories Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Date: | 8 October 2023 | ||||||
| Volume: | 202 | ||||||
| Number: | 121 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1573-0964 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22641 |
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