Saatsi, Juha (2015) Models, Idealisations, and Realism. [Preprint]
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Abstract
I explore a challenge that idealisations pose to scientific realism and argue that the realist can best accommodate idealisations by capitalising on certain modal features of idealised models that are underwritten by laws of nature.
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| Additional Information: | Forthcoming in Models and Inferences in Science. Editors: Sterpetti F, Ippoliti E, Nickles T. Springer | ||||||
| Keywords: | Scientific realism; modelling; idealisations | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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| Depositing User: | Juha Saatsi | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 28 Oct 2015 13:11 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 28 Oct 2015 13:11 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 11739 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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| Date: | 2015 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11739 |
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