What to Make of Highly Unrealistic Models

Articles (6 in this collection)

1. Factive inferentialism and the puzzle of model-based explanation

   Authors

   • Philippe Verreault-Julien

   • Content type: Original Research
   • Open Access
   • Published: 21 June 2021

   • Pages: 10039 - 10057

2. Do fictions explain?

   Authors

   • James Nguyen

   • Content type: Unrealistic Models
   • Open Access
   • Published: 25 November 2020

   • Pages: 3219 - 3244

3. Mechanist idealisation in systems biology

   Authors

   • Dingmar van Eck
   • Cory Wright

   • Content type: Unrealistic Models
   • Published: 17 September 2020

   • Pages: 1555 - 1575

   

4. Unrealistic models for realistic computations: how idealisations help represent mathematical structures and found scientific computing

   Authors

   • Philippos Papayannopoulos

   • Content type: Unrealistic Models
   • Published: 04 May 2020

   • Pages: 249 - 283

   

5. Synthetic fictions: turning imagined biological systems into concrete ones

   Authors

   • Tarja Knuuttila
   • Rami Koskinen

   • Content type: Unrealistic Models
   • Open Access
   • Published: 28 February 2020

   • Pages: 8233 - 8250

6. Scientific representation and dissimilarity

   Authors

   • Brandon Boesch

   • Content type: Unrealistic Models
   • Published: 09 October 2019

   • Pages: 5495 - 5513