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Pandemics and flexible lockdowns: In praise of agent-based modeling
Philosophers have recently questioned the methodological status of agent-based modeling. Meanwhile, this methodology has been central to various...
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Non-classical Models of ZF
This paper contributes to the generalization of lattice-valued models of set theory to non-classical contexts. First, we show that there are...
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Cross-sectional analysis of financial relationships between board certified allergists and the pharmaceutical industry in Japan
BackgroundFinancial interactions between pharmaceutical companies and physicians lead to conflicts of interest. This study examines the extent and...
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Moving beyond direct marketing with new mediated models: evolution of or departure from alternative food networks?
For some time we have seen a shift away from direct marketing, a core feature and dominant exchange form in the alternative food world, towards a...
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Data models, representation and adequacy-for-purpose
We critically engage two traditional views of scientific data and outline a novel philosophical view that we call the pragmatic-representational (PR)...
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Dynamical Phenomena and Their Models: Truth and Empirical Correctness
In the epistemological tradition, there are two main interpretations of the semantic relation that an empirical theory may bear to the real world....
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The role of disciplinary perspectives in an epistemology of scientific models
The purpose of this article is to develop an epistemology of scientific models in scientific research practices, and to show that disciplinary...
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Bridging the Gap: The Artifactual View Meets the Fiction View of Models
Fiora Salis compares the fictional and the artifactual views of models. She argues that both accounts contain several deep insights concerning the...
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Conceptualizing Corporate Accountability in International Law: Models for a Business and Human Rights Treaty
This article conceptualizes corporate accountability under international law and introduces an analytical framework translating corporate...
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An analysis of the disagreement about added value by regional climate models
In this paper we consider some questions surrounding whether or not regional climate models “add value,” a controversial issue in climate science...
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Concluding Remarks: Qiyās and Contemporary Models of Parallel Reasoning
In Islamic jurisprudence qiyās or correlational inference is a pattern of reasoning applied in order to establish the legal validity of a ruling when...
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Theories, Models and Representation
Before discussing what the aim of science could be and whether it is achievable, it is important to be clear on what scientific theories are and how...
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Formal models of source reliability
The paper introduces, compares and contrasts formal models of source reliability proposed in the epistemology literature, in particular the prominent...
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Models of Knowledge in the Zhuangzi: Knowing with Chisels and Sticks
The Zhuangzi offers quite a few stories that centre on performance: a bellstand maker who selects wood to create wonderful bellstands; a ferryman who...
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Deepfakes and depiction: from evidence to communication
In this paper, I present an analysis of the depictive properties of deepfakes. These are videos and pictures produced by deep learning algorithms...
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Software engineering standards for epidemiological models
There are many tangled normative and technical questions involved in evaluating the quality of software used in epidemiological simulations. In this...
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Zoocentrism in the weeds? Cultivating plant models for cognitive yield
It remains at best controversial to claim, non-figuratively, that plants are cognitive agents. At the same time, it is taken as trivially true that...
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Carnap’s Problem, Definability and Compositionality
In his Formalization of Logic (1943) Carnap pointed out that there are non-normal interpretations of classical logic: non-standard interpretations of...
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Commented Bibliography on Models and Idealizations
This chapter provides a classified and commented bibliography of printed books on the philosophy of scientific modeling and related issues, such as...
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Structural Representation and the Ontology of Models
This chapter introduces a structural account of representation through partial structures and examines its ontological commitments. It is pointed out...