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Physical Models and Fundamental Laws: Using One Piece of the World to Tell About Another (Pavia MBR'01 version)
Models similarity laws analogical reasoning
2008/4/22
In this paper I discuss the relationship between model, theories, and laws in the practice of experimental scale modeling. The methodology of experimental scale modeling, also known as physical simila...
Scientific Theories, Models, and the Semantic Approach
semantic view Skolem's paradox modal interpretation
2008/4/22
According to the semantic view, a theory is characterized by a class of models. In this paper, we examine critically some of the assumptions that underlie this approach. First, we recall that models a...
Seeking Representations of Phenomena: Phenomenological Models
Models Phenomenological Models Theories Idealization
2008/4/22
I argue that phenomenological modeling can be better understood as a process that abides by theoretical constraints which are in constant interplay with experimentally determined results and progressi...
Simulating Many-Body Models in Physics:Rigorous Results, 'Benchmarks', and Cross-Model Justification
models model rigor rigour mathematical physics
2008/4/21
This paper argues that, for a prospective philosophical analysis of models and simulations to be successful, it must accommodate an account of mathematically rigorous results. Such rigorous results ar...
The aim of this paper is to argue that simulation is the activity of inferring future states. I argue that
simulations instantiate models and that models are complexes of representations, so the infe...
Stable Models and Causal Explanation in Evolutionary Biology
Group Selection Stable Models
2008/4/21
Models that fail to satisfy the Markov condition are unstable in the sense that changes in state variable values may cause changes in the values of background variables, and these changes in backgroun...
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (II): Variations in Complex Models
symmetry spontaneous breaking of symmetry
2008/4/21
This paper, part II of a two-part project, continues to explore the meaning of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) by applying and expanding the general notion we obtained in part I to some more compl...
The Dark Side of the Force: When computer simulations lead us astray and ``model think'' narrows our imagination --- Pre conference draft for the Models and Simulation Conference, Paris, June 12-14 ---
computer simulations
2008/4/21
This paper is intended as a critical examination of the question of when the use of computer simulations is beneficial to scientific explanations. This objective is pursued in two steps: First, I try ...
The Ontological Commitments of Mathematical Models
Mathematical realism Indispensability argument Mathematical models
2008/4/21
Some philosophers of mathematics argue that the role of mathematical models in science is merely representational: when scientists use mathematical models they only believe that they are adequate repr...
In “The Toolbox of Science” (1995) together with Towfic Shomar we advocated a form of instrumentalism about scientific theories. We separately developed this view further in a number of subsequent wor...
A number of writers have been attracted to the idea that some of the peculiarities of quantum theory might be manifestations of 'backward' or 'retro' causality, underlying the quantum description. Thi...
Representation has been one of the main themes in the recent discussion of models. Several authors have argued for a pragmatic approach to representation that takes users and their interpretations int...
Experimental engineering models have been used both to model general phenomena, such as the onset of turbulence in fluid flow, as well as to predict the performance of machines of particular size and ...
Models in Fluid Dynamics
Fluid Dynamics Models
2008/4/15
In this paper, I would like to show that considering technological models as they arise in engineering disciplines can greatly enrich the philosophical perspective on models. In fluid mechanics, (at l...
According to a widespread view of scientific modelling, the false ‘prepared descriptions’ and theoretical laws that scientists write down when they model a system do not represent that system directly...