SYNTHESE
2011
12 years 11 months ago
2011
: My aim in this paper is to articulate an account of scientific modeling that reconciles pluralism about modeling with a modest form of scientific realism. The central claim of th...
SYNTHESE
2011
12 years 11 months ago
2011
: The aim of this paper is to revisit the phlogiston theory to see what can be learned from it about the relationship between scientific realism, approximate truth and successful r...