Walstad, Allan (2023) The Model View Meets Quantum Ontology. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

What is here called the “model view” of science is a distinct perspective associated with Ronald Giere and Paul Teller, which places the construction and use of models at the center of scientific theorizing. This paper offers friendly critical discussion--and significant revision--of the Giere-Teller model view, emphasizing the relevance both of evolutionary psychology and the economic concept of value subjectivism. The result is a sharper contrast with the common image of science as discovering real entities and natural laws governing them in a cumulative process converging on ultimate truth. In the context of the model view, a contentious issue in the philosophy of quantum mechanics is resolved: Is the Everett interpretation with wave function realism rendered untenable by the absence of a separate three-dimensional ontology? (It is not.)

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Item Type:	Other
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Walstad, Allan
Keywords:	Models
Subjects:	General Issues > Models and Idealization Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User:	Allan Walstad
Date Deposited:	18 Aug 2023 12:49
Last Modified:	18 Aug 2023 12:49
Item ID:	22430
Subjects:	General Issues > Models and Idealization Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date:	17 August 2023
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22430

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