Feb 27, 2006 · Models raise questions in semantics (how, if at all, do models represent?), ontology (what kind of things are models?), epistemology (how do we learn and explain with models?), and, of …

May 9, 2003 · A presupposition of most recent discussion has been that science sometimes provides explanations (rather than something that falls short of explanation—e.g., “mere description”) and that …

Feb 27, 2006 · Significant parts of scientific investigation are carried out on models rather than on reality itself because by studying a model we can discover features of and ascertain facts about the system …

Oct 10, 2016 · A scientific model can then be defined as a \ (Z\)-representation, i.e., an object under an interpretation. This notion of a model explicitly does not presuppose a target system and hence …

Nov 10, 2001 · Several philosophers of science have pursued the idea of using an informal version of model-theoretic models for scientific modelling. Sometimes the models are described as non …

May 6, 2013 · Instead of finding a computer program to simulate the black holes, physicists find a fluid dynamical setup for which they believe they have a good model and for which that model has …

Nov 18, 2015 · In late twentieth century philosophy of science, the term “mechanism” came to stand for a kind of theoretical structure according to which some capacity or behavior of a whole or an …

Sep 24, 2018 · They were first named ‘Turing machines’ by Alonzo Church in a review of Turing’s paper (Church 1937). Today, they are considered to be one of the foundational models of computability and …

Jan 2, 2006 · On this definition, political representation is the activity of making citizens’ voices, opinions, and perspectives “present” in public policy making processes.

Sep 7, 2023 · Given that one of the main cognitive functions of models in science is to help us to learn about the world (cf. the entry on models in science), this raises the question: what exactly can we …