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Intentional Models as Essential Scientific Tools
Intentionality intentional model statistical model phenomenological model mechanistic model propositional attitude prediction explanation
2016/6/13
In this article, I argue that the use of scientific models that attribute intentional content to complex systems bears a striking similarity to the way in which statistical descriptions are used. To d...
When one model is not enough:Combining epistemic tools in systems biology
modeling reverse engineering network motifs Rheinberger engineering analogies historical epistemology
2016/6/13
In recent years, the philosophical focus of the modeling literature has shifted from descriptions of general properties of models to an interest in different model functions. It has been argued that t...
Exemplars, Records, Tools: Organisms in Botanical Research, c. 1750-1850
biology botany experiment natural history model organisms
2009/9/17
In botany, garden and herbarium specimens have been used for purposes of systematic research since the mid-sixteenth century. The associated practices of collecting, exchanging and collating specimens...
Paleolithic Flints: Is an Aesthetics of Stone Tools Possible?1
anthropology and aesthetics anthropology of the senses
2008/11/6
This paper asks whether an aesthetics of Paleolithic tools is possible, and if so, what it might be. The application of our own aesthetic sensibilities to artifacts of prehistory is not difficult. We ...
In “The Toolbox of Science” (1995) together with Towfic Shomar we advocated a form of instrumentalism about scientific theories. We separately developed this view further in a number of subsequent wor...
Papers that study real world phenomena with the help of agent-based models often offer direct policy advice. The measures recommended refer to measures taken by real policy makers, not to intervention...