Fictions in Science (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
282
Utgivningsdatum
2008-10-29
Förlag
Routledge
Illustratör/Fotograf
black and white 5 Line drawings
Illustrationer
5 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensioner
234 x 158 x 25 mm
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589 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780415990356

Fictions in Science

Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization

av Mauricio Surez
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2008-10-29
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Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides us with a realistic description of the world down to the last detail. The essays collected in this bookwritten by some of the leading experts in the fieldchallenge this popular image right at its heart, taking as their starting point that science trades not only in truth, but in fiction, too. With case studies that range from physics to economics and to biology, Fictions in Science reveals that fictions are as ubiquitous in scientific narratives and practice as they are in any other human endeavor, including literature and art. Of course scientific activity, most prominently in the formal sciences, employs logically precise algorithmic thinking. However, the key to the predictive and technological success of the empirical sciences might well lie elsewhereperhaps even in scientists extraordinary creative imagination instead. As these essays demonstrate, within the bounds of what is empirically possible, a scientists capacity for invention and creative thinking matches that of any writer or artist.
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Mauricio Surez is Associate Professor in Logic and Philosophy of Science at Madrids Complutense University. His main research interests lie in the philosophy of physics and general epistemology of science, and he has published widely in both areas.

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Acknowledgments Part I: INTRODUCTION Fictions in Scientific Practice (Mauricio Surez) Part II: THE NATURE OF FICTIONS IN SCIENCE 2. Fictionalism (Arthur Fine) 3. Laboratory Fictions (Joseph Rouse) 4. Models as Fictions (Anouk Barberousse and Pascal Ludwig) Part III: THE EXPLANATORY POWER OF FICTIONS 5. Exemplification, Idealization, and Scientific Understanding (Catherine Elgin) 6. Explanatory Fictions (Alisa Bokulich) 7. Fictions, Representations and Reality (Margaret Morrison) Part IV: FICTIONS IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES 8. When Does a Scientific Theory Describe Reality? (Carsten Held) 9. Scientific Fictions as Rules of Inference (Mauricio Surez) 10. A Function for Fictions: Expanding the Scope of Science (Eric Winsberg) Part V: FICTIONS IN THE SPECIAL SCIENCES 11. Model Organisms as Fictions (Rachel Ankeny) 12. Representation, Idealization and Fiction in Economics: From the Assumptions Issue to the Epistemology of Modeling (Tarja Knuuttila) Part VI: FICTIONS AND REALISM 13. Fictions, Fictionalization and Truth in Science (Paul Teller) 14. Why Scientific Models Should Not Be Regarded as Works of Fiction (Ronald N. Giere) Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

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