Is credibility a guide to possibility? A challenge for toy models in science
| العنوان: | Is credibility a guide to possibility? A challenge for toy models in science |
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| المؤلفون: | Ylwa Sjölin Wirling |
| المصدر: | Analysis. 81:470-478 |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Philosophy, Computer science, 060302 philosophy, 05 social sciences, Credibility, 06 humanities and the arts, 0509 other social sciences, 050905 science studies, 0603 philosophy, ethics and religion, GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries), Data science |
| الوصف: | Several philosophers of science claim that scientific toy models afford knowledge of possibility, but answers to the question of why toy models can be expected to competently play this role are scarce. The main line of reply is that toy models support possibility claims insofar as they are credible. I raise a challenge for this credibility-thesis, drawing on a familiar problem for imagination-based modal epistemologies, and argue that it remains unanswered in the current literature. The credibility-thesis has a long way to go if it is to account for the epistemic merits of toy models. |
| تدمد: | 1467-8284 0003-2638 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::846ee1a1bb8a5e2fee1ce7a4f1a70c32 https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anab013 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........846ee1a1bb8a5e2fee1ce7a4f1a70c32 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14678284 00032638 |
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