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9780415990356

Fictions in Science: Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415990356

  • ISBN10:

    0415990351

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-10-29
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides a realistic description of the world. The essays collected in this book challenge this popular image right at its heart, taking as their starting point that science trades not only in truth, but in fiction.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Fictions in Scientific Practicep. 3
The Nature of Fictions in Science
Fictionalismp. 19
Laboratory Fictionsp. 37
Models as Fictionsp. 56
The Explanatory Power of Fictions
Exemplification, Idealization, and Scientific Understandingp. 77
Explanatory Fictionsp. 91
Fictions, Representations, and Realityp. 110
Fictions in the Physical Sciences
When Does a Scientific Theory Describe Reality?p. 139
Scientific Fictions as Rules of Inferencep. 158
A Function for Fictions: Expanding the Scope of Sciencep. 179
Fictions in the Special Sciences
Model Organisms as Fictionsp. 193
Representation, Idealization, and Fiction in Economics: From the Assumptions Issue to the Epistemology of Modelingp. 205
Fictions and Realism
Fictions, Fictionalization, and Truth in Sciencep. 235
Why Scientific Models Should Not Be Regarded as Works of Fictionp. 248
Referencesp. 259
Contributorsp. 271
Indexp. 275
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