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Standard and Non-standard Suppositions and Presuppositions
In this paper, I argue that the distinction between standard and non-standard pragmatic implications, originally used to differentiate among types of...
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The Puzzle of Fictional Models
The use of fictional models is extensive and rewarding in modern science. This fact captured the attention of philosophers of science, who are...
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Boolean Valued Models, Boolean Valuations, and Löwenheim-Skolem Theorems
Boolean-valued models for first-order languages generalize two-valued models, in that the value range is allowed to be any complete Boolean algebra...
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Confidence in Covid-19 models
Epidemiological models of the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 played an important role in guiding the decisions of policy-makers during the pandemic. Such...
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Are models our tools not our masters?
It is often claimed that one can avoid the kind of underdetermination that is a typical consequence of symmetries in physics by stipulating that...
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Monotonicity Reasoning in the Age of Neural Foundation Models
The recent advance of large language models (LLMs) demonstrates that these large-scale foundation models achieve remarkable capabilities across a...
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No-Thing and Causality in Realistic Non-Standard Interpretations of the Quantum Mechanical Wave Function: Ex Nihilo Aliquid?
It has been shown that quantum mechanics in its orthodox interpretation violates four different formulations of causality principle endowed with...
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Idealized Models as Selective Representations
This paper calls into question one fundamental claim at the basis of an alleged puzzle for veritistic accounts of the value of idealized models: the...
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Bread prices and sea levels: why probabilistic causal models need to be monotonic
A key challenge for probabilistic causal models is to distinguish non-causal probabilistic dependencies from true causal relations. To accomplish...
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What are general models about?
Models provide scientists with knowledge about target systems. An important group of models are those that are called general . However, what exactly...
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Why Ethics Commissions? Four Normative Models
Ethics commissions are government advisory commissions mandated to give expert advice on contentious moral issues. As this requires making explicit...
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Modals model models: scientific modeling and counterfactual reasoning
Counterfactual reasoning has been used to account for many aspects of scientific reasoning. More recently, it has also been used to account for the...
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Examining Phronesis Models with Evidence from the Neuroscience of Morality Focusing on Brain Networks
In this paper, I examined whether evidence from the neuroscience of morality supports the standard models of phronesis , i.e., Jubilee and Aretai...
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Sloppy Models, Renormalization Group Realism, and the Success of Science
The “sloppy models” program originated in systems biology, but has seen applications across a range of fields. Sloppy models are dependent on a large...
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Epidemiological Models and Epistemic Perspectives: How Scientific Pluralism may be Misconstrued
In a scenario characterized by unpredictable developments, such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic, epidemiological models have played a leading part,...
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Understanding models understanding language
Landgrebe and Smith (Synthese 198(March):2061–2081, 2021) present an unflattering diagnosis of recent advances in what they call language-centric arti...
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Broken brakes and dreaming drivers: the heuristic value of causal models in the law
Recently, there has been an increased interest in employing model-based definitions of actual causation in legal inquiry. The formal precision of...
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A Characterization of Lewisian Causal Models
An important component in the interventionist account of causal explanation is an interpretation of counterfactual conditionals as statements about...
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Validating Cultural Models with Cultural Consensus Theory
This chapter links the discovery process of creating a descriptive model with a verification process. Descriptive “models” distilled from qualitative...
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Informational Models of the Phenomenon of Consciousness and the Mechanistic Project in Neuroscience
I argue that informational models of consciousness, including those proposed by the Integrated Information Theory, don’t presuppose or entail any...