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Models, idealisations, and realism

Springer International Publishing, (2016), 173-189
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28163-6_10
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Abstract

I explore a challenge that idealisations pose to scientific realism and argue that the realist can best accommodate idealisations by capitalising on certain modal features of idealised models that are underwritten by laws of nature.

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Saatsi, J. (2016). Models, idealisations, and realism. In Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (Vol. 25, pp. 173–189). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28163-6_10

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