کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1160951 1490348 2011 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Trade-offs in model-building: A more target-oriented approach
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر تاریخ
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Trade-offs in model-building: A more target-oriented approach
چکیده انگلیسی

In his 1966 paper “The Strategy of model-building in Population Biology”, Richard Levins argues that no single model in population biology can be maximally realistic, precise and general at the same time. This is because these desirable model properties trade-off against one another. Recently, philosophers have developed Levins’ claims, arguing that trade-offs between these desiderata are generated by practical limitations on scientists, or due to formal aspects of models and how they represent the world. However this project is not complete. The trade-offs discussed by Levins had a noticeable effect on modelling in population biology, but not on other sciences. This raises questions regarding why such a difference holds. I claim that in order to explain this finding, we must pay due attention to the properties of the systems, or targets modelled by the different branches of science.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A - Volume 42, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 324–333
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