Rice, Collin (2024) Beyond Reduction and Emergence: A Framework for Tailoring Multiscale Modeling Techniques to Specific Contexts. Biology and Philosophy, 39 (12).

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This paper analyzes three multiscale modeling techniques that are commonly used in biology and physics and uses those cases to construct a normative framework for tailoring multiscale modeling techniques to specific modeling contexts. I argue that the selection of a multiscale modeling technique ought to focus on degrees of relative autonomy between scales, the measurable macroscale parameters of interest, indirect scaling relationships mediated by mesoscale features, and the degree of heterogeneity of the system’s mesoscale structures. The unique role that these features play in multiscale modeling reveals several important methodological, epistemological, and metaphysical questions for future philosophical investigations into multiscale modeling.

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Item Type:	Published Article or Volume
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Rice, Collin collin.rice@colostate.edu
Keywords:	Modeling; Multiscale; Autonomy
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology General Issues > Models and Idealization
Depositing User:	Collin Rice
Date Deposited:	22 Aug 2025 13:52
Last Modified:	22 Aug 2025 13:52
Item ID:	26301
Journal or Publication Title:	Biology and Philosophy
Publisher:	Springer
Official URL:	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-0...
DOI or Unique Handle:	10.1007/s10539-024- 09949-x
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology General Issues > Models and Idealization
Date:	2024
Volume:	39
Number:	12
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/26301

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