کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7551675 1490326 2016 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The explanatory role of abstraction processes in models: The case of aggregations
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
نقش توضیحی فرآیندهای انتزاع در مدل ها: مورد جمع آوری ها
کلمات کلیدی
فرایندهای انتزاع، انباشتگی، مدل ها، ارزش توضیحی،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر تاریخ
چکیده انگلیسی
Though it is held that some models in science have explanatory value, there is no conclusive agreement on what provides them with this value. One common view is that models have explanatory value vis-à-vis some target systems because they are developed using an abstraction process (i.e., a process which involves omitting features). Though I think this is correct, I believe it is not the whole picture. In this paper, I argue that, in addition to the well-known process of abstraction understood as an omission of features or information, there is also a family of abstraction processes that involve aggregation of features or information and that these processes play an important role in endowing the models they are used to build with explanatory value. After offering a taxonomy of abstraction processes involving aggregation, I show by considering in detail several models drawn from different sciences that the abstraction processes involving aggregation that are used to build these models are responsible (at least partially) for their having explanatory value.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A - Volume 56, April 2016, Pages 161-167
نویسندگان
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