
Models in Science - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Feb 27, 2006 · Models raise questions in semantics (how, if at all, do models represent?), ontology (what kind of things are models?), epistemology (how do we learn and explain with …
Religion and Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Jan 17, 2017 · The interdisciplinary field of “science and religion”, also called “theology and science”, aims to answer these and other questions. It studies historical and contemporary …
Computer Simulations in Science - Stanford Encyclopedia of …
May 6, 2013 · Instead of finding a computer program to simulate the black holes, physicists find a fluid dynamical setup for which they believe they have a good model and for which that model …
Cognitive Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Sep 23, 1996 · Bayesian models are prominent in cognitive science, with applications to such psychological phenomena as learning, vision, motor control, language, and social cognition.
Scientific Method (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Nov 13, 2015 · In this sense, science does not differ in kind from other kinds of inquiry, but it may differ in the degree to which it requires broad and detailed background knowledge and a …
Scientific Representation (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Oct 10, 2016 · This is in line both with the more recent literature on scientific representation, which is predominantly concerned with scientific models, and with the prime importance that …
Models in Science - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The billiard ball model of a gas, the Bohr model of the atom, the double helix model of DNA, the scale model of a bridge, the Mundell-Fleming model of an open economy, or the Lorenz model …
Scientific Explanation (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
May 9, 2003 · A presupposition of most recent discussion has been that science sometimes provides explanations (rather than something that falls short of explanation—e.g., “mere …
Thomas Kuhn - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Aug 13, 2004 · This is the double-language model of the language of science and was the standard picture of the relationship of a scientific theory to the world when Kuhn wrote The …
Causal Approaches to Scientific Explanation (Stanford …
Mar 17, 2023 · For a discussion of earlier accounts of explanation including the deductive-nomological (DN) model, Wesley Salmon’s statistical relevance and causal mechanical …