HPS 2153 - MODELS AND MODELING IN SCIENCE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
There is increasing interest in representing scientific knowledge by means of models. Some (Suppes, Giere, Vanfraasssen) have argued for model theoretic rather than axiomatic formulations in defending a semantic account of theories. For others, models are understood in light of scientific practice, autonomous from theory, or mediating between theory and observation (Morrison, Morgan). This seminar will examine recent philosophical literature (cartwright and others) on related topics including, the relation of model to theory and to observation, the nature of abstraction, idealization, analogy and isomorphism in modeling, and different types of models including physical and scale models, mathematical models and computer simulations
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis

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