The strategy of model-based science

By P. Godfrey‐Smith. 2007

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Subfields: History and Philosophy of Science, Information Systems and Management, Molecular Biology

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Models and fictions in science (2009, methodology): “Giere presented this as an analysis of all theoretical science, but it is more useful when applied differently ( Godfrey-Smith 2006a; Weisberg 2007).”
Incredible Worlds, Credible Results (2009, background): “Reasoning with models is thus essentially learning about surrogate systems, and this surrogative nature distinguishes modelling from other epistemic activities such as ‘‘abstract direct representation’’ (Weisberg 2007; see also Godfrey-Smith 2006 ).”
Modelling and representing: An artefactual approach to model-based representation (2011, background): “Whereas for some authors the independence of models means independence from real-world target systems (Knuuttila 2005, Weisberg 2007, Godfrey-Smith 2006), others stress independence in relation to the theory-data framework (Morrison and Morgan 1999, Boumans 1999).”
Models and fiction (2009, background): “When presenting a model, scientists perform two different acts: they present a hypothetical system as object of study, and they claim that this system is a representation of the particular part or aspect of the world that we are interested in, the so-called the target system.2 In working…”
Learning from Minimal Economic Models (2009, methodology): “Instead, modelling starts with an asserted surrogate relation, thus being less demanding than the other modes (Godfrey-Smith 2006; Weisberg 2007).”
Model Organisms are Not (Theoretical) Models (2015, methodology): “Rosa and Seibel’s argument 10 How to best conceptualize homology is contentious issue (Brigandt and Griffiths [2007]; Ramsey and Peterson [2012]; Hall [2003]).”