Nowak, Models, and the Lessons of Neo-Kantianism
Models are the coin of the realm in current philosophy of science, as they are in science itself, having replaced laws and theories as the primary strategy. Logical Positivism tried to erase the older neo-Kantian distinction between ideal constructions and reality. It returns in the case of models....
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| description | Models are the coin of the realm in current philosophy of science, as they are in science itself, having replaced laws and theories as the primary strategy. Logical Positivism tried to erase the older neo-Kantian distinction between ideal constructions and reality. It returns in the case of models. Nowak’s concept of idealization provided an alternative account of this issue. It construed model application as concretizations of hypotheses which improve by accounting for exceptions. This appears to account for physical law. But it raises the problem of uniqueness: is the result unique, as physical law should be? Neo-Kantianism failed this test. Its solutions were circular justifications for claims of uniqueness. Nowak inherited the problem without resolving it. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f9e373183a9c4805a6db620623fc8b2b2023-10-21T11:50:37ZcesInstitute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of SciencesOrganon F1335-06682585-71502023-05-01302165170https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30208Nowak, Models, and the Lessons of Neo-KantianismStephen Turner0University of South FloridaModels are the coin of the realm in current philosophy of science, as they are in science itself, having replaced laws and theories as the primary strategy. Logical Positivism tried to erase the older neo-Kantian distinction between ideal constructions and reality. It returns in the case of models. Nowak’s concept of idealization provided an alternative account of this issue. It construed model application as concretizations of hypotheses which improve by accounting for exceptions. This appears to account for physical law. But it raises the problem of uniqueness: is the result unique, as physical law should be? Neo-Kantianism failed this test. Its solutions were circular justifications for claims of uniqueness. Nowak inherited the problem without resolving it.https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/08011057orgf.2023.30208.pdfideal-typesidealizationleszek nowakmodelsneo-kantianismpoznań school of methodologyunderdetermination |
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| title | Nowak, Models, and the Lessons of Neo-Kantianism |
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| title_short | Nowak, Models, and the Lessons of Neo-Kantianism |
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| topic | ideal-types idealization leszek nowak models neo-kantianism poznań school of methodology underdetermination |
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