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Three Kinds of Idealization
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“All scientific models contain idealisations: the intentional misrepresentation of a target system.”
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- James Woodward, Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
- Michael Strevens, "The Causal and Unification Accounts of Explanation Unified - Causally", Noûs, XXXVIII (2004), pp. 154-179.
- Tania Lombrozo, "The Structure and Function of Explanations," Trends in Cognitive Science, X (2006), pp. 464-470.
- Roald Hoffmann, V. I. Minkin, and Barry K. Carpenter, "Ockham's Razor and Chemistry," Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France, CXXXIII (1996), pp. 117-130.
- Malcom R. Forster, "The New Science of Simplicity," in Arnold Zellner, Hugo Keuzenkamp, and Michael McAleer (eds.), Simplicity, Inference and Modelling, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 83-117.
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- Weisberg, M., & Journal of Philosophy, I.
- Venue
- Journal of Philosophy
- Publisher
- Philosophy Documentation Center
- Published
- 2007
- Volume
- 104
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 639-659
- ISSN
- 0022-362X
- Cited by
- 418
- References
- 0
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