Models and Theories
Models and theories are of central importance in science, and scientists spend substantial amounts of time building, testing, comparing and revising models and theories. It is therefore not surprising that the nature of scientific models and theories has been a widely debated topic within the philos...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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England :
Taylor & Francis
2022
2022. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009672502806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Theory and language
- Models in the received view
- Delineating the observable
- Framing the theoretical
- Thinking through structures
- Representing with structures
- Family ties
- Beyond structures
- Reconsidering representation
- Analogy
- Abstraction, approximation, idealisation
- Limit idealisations and factor exclusions
- Challenging subordination
- What are models?
- Taming abundance
- The model muddle.
