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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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Scientific counterfactuals as make-believe
Counterfactuals abound in science, especially when reasoning about and with models. This often requires entertaining counterfactual conditionals with...
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A Philosophy of Fictions: How Fictions Become Real
Engaging philosophical work on fictions, virtues, and aesthetic reception, this chapter seeks to understand how fictions may become real. If the...
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Do fictions explain?
I argue that fictional models, construed as models that misrepresent certain ontological aspects of their target systems, can nevertheless explain...
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Models, Fictions and Artifacts
This paper discusses modeling from the artifactual perspective. The artifactual approach conceives models as erotetic devices. They are purpose-built...
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Physicists’ views on scientific realism
Do physicists believe that general relativity is true , and that electrons and phonons exist , and if so, in what sense? To what extent does the...
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The modal basis of scientific modelling
The practice of scientific modelling often resorts to hypothetical, false, idealised, targetless, partial, generalised, and other types of modelling...
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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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Introduction: Theories, Models, and Scientific Representations
Alejandro Cassini and Juan Redmond offer an elementary but fairly complete and extensive introduction to the present state of the philosophy of...
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Synthetic fictions: turning imagined biological systems into concrete ones
The recent discussion of fictional models has focused on imagination, implicitly considering fictions as something nonconcrete. We present two cases...
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Scientific Representation as Ensemble-Plus-Standing-For: A Moderate Fictionalist Account
José A. Díez examines the reasons for claiming that models involve fictions. He opposes the claim that, in order to account for some key features of...
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On the relationship between scientific theory and ontology in everything flows
In their anthology Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology , Daniel J. Nicholson and John Dupré argue that modern theories of...
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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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Incorporating (variational) free energy models into mechanisms: the case of predictive processing under the free energy principle
The issue of the relationship between predictive processing (PP) and the free energy principle (FEP) remains a subject of debate and controversy...
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Fictionalists Disregard the Dynamic Nature of Scientific Models
In the current epistemological debate scientific models are not only considered as useful devices for explaining facts or discovering new entities,...
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Using Pictorial Representations as Story-Telling
Pictorial representations such as diagrams and figures are widely used in scientific literature for explanatory and descriptive purposes. The...
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Stellar Structure Models Revisited: Evidence and Data in Asteroseismology
This paper advances further an ongoing project to understand the history of stellar structure modelling and its inferential practice. It does so by...
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Models as Hypostatizations: The Case of Supervaluationism in Semantics
Manuel García Carpintero defends a form of antirealism for the explicit talk and thought both about fictional entities and scientific models: a...
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Models and Idealizations in Science Artifactual and Fictional Approaches
This book provides both an introduction to the philosophy of scientific modeling and a contribution to the discussion and clarification of two recent...
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Scientific Success
One of the main motivations for scientific realism is that it would explain the “miraculous success” of science, in particular the successful...