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 …

Jan 17, 2017 · The conflict model holds that science and religion are in perpetual and principal conflict. It relies heavily on two historical narratives: the trial of Galileo (see Dawes 2016) and the reception of …

May 6, 2013 · In this broader sense of the term, it refers to an entire process. This process includes choosing a model; finding a way of implementing that model in a form that can be run on a computer; …

Nov 13, 2015 · Science is an enormously successful human enterprise. The study of scientific method is the attempt to discern the activities by which that success is achieved.

Sep 23, 1996 · Bayesian models are prominent in cognitive science, with applications to such psychological phenomena as learning, vision, motor control, language, and social cognition.

The billiard ball model of a gas, the Bohr model of the atom, the double helix model of DNA, the scale model of a bridge, the Mundell-Fleming model of an open economy, or the Lorenz model of the …

Jan 2, 2006 · Recently, Mansbridge (2009) has gone further by suggesting that political science has focused too much on the sanctions model of accountability and that another model, what she calls …

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 …

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 …

Aug 13, 2004 · This is the double-language model of the language of science and was the standard picture of the relationship of a scientific theory to the world when Kuhn wrote The Structure of …