Models as Mediators: Perspectives on Natural and Social Science,9780521655712

Models as Mediators: Perspectives on Natural and Social Science

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ISBN13: 9780521655712
ISBN10: 0521655714
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-11-28
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Models as Mediators discusses the ways in which models function in modern science, particularly in the fields of physics and economics. Models play a variety of roles in the sciences: they are used in the development, exploration and application of theories and in measurement methods. They also provide a mechanism for using scientific concepts and principles to intervene in the world. The editors provide a framework that covers the construction and function of scientific models, and explore the ways in which they enable us to learn about both theories and the world. The contributors to the volume offer their own individual theoretical perspectives and cover a wide range of examples of modeling. These papers provide ideal case study material for exploring both the concepts and typical elements of modeling methods, using analytical approaches from the domains of philosophy and history of science.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
vii
Preface ix
Introduction
1(9)
Margaret Morrison
Mary S. Morgan
Models as mediating instruments
10(28)
Margaret Morrison
Mary S. Morgan
Models as autonomous agents
38(28)
Margaret Morrison
Built-in justification
66(31)
Marcel Boumans
The Ising model, computer simulation, and universal physics
97(49)
R. I. G. Hughes
Techniques of modelling and paper-tools in classical chemistry
146(22)
Ursula Klein
The role of models in the application of scientific theories: epistemological implications
168(28)
Mauricio Suarez
Knife-edge caricature modelling: the case of Marx's Reproduction Schema
196(45)
Geert Reuten
Models and the limits of theory: quantum Hamiltonians and the BCS models of superconductivity
241(41)
Nancy Cartwright
Past measurements and future prediction Adrienne van den Bogaard
282(44)
Models and stories in hadron physics Stephan Hartmann
326(21)
Learning from models
347(42)
Mary S. Morgan
Index 389

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