Leveraging Distortions
By Collin Rice
By Collin Rice
By Collin Rice
By Collin Rice
Category: Science & Technology
Category: Science & Technology
-
$65.00
Aug 17, 2021 | ISBN 9780262542616
-
Aug 17, 2021 | ISBN 9780262365833
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
The Artist As Critic
Bullies, Tyrants, and Impossible People
Re-Making Love
The Ten Equations That Rule the World
Evolving Ourselves
Three Blind Mice
In Their Own Words
Praise
“Ultimately, the book presents a contemporary view of explanation and understanding that attempts to shift the discussion in the philosophy of science away from some false and simplistic assumptions about the role of idealisation in explanation. In this respect, I think the book is, and will be, quite successful.”
—Metascience
Table Of Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Causal Explanation, Accurate Representation, and the Decompositional Strategy
3 Many Explanations are Noncausal
4 A Counterfactual Account of Explanation
5 Models Don’t Decompose that Way: The Holistic Distortion View of Idealized Models
6 Using Universality to Justify the Use of Holistic Distortions to Explain
7 Multiscale Modeling and Universality
8 Understanding, Realism, and the Progress of Science
9 Leveraging Holistic Distortions: The Positive Contributions of Idealizations to Explanation and Understanding
Notes
References
Index
21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read
Just for joining you’ll get personalized recommendations on your dashboard daily and features only for members.
Find Out More Join Now Sign In