Switch to: References

Add citations

You must login to add citations.
  1. Idealization and factualization in science.Władysław Krajewski - 1977 - Erkenntnis 11 (1):323 - 339.
    This paper considers the method of idealization and factualization as the main method of all advanced empirical science. The procedure is as follows. Some idealizing conditions are assumed: the vanishing of factors $(p_{i}=0)$ which never vanish in the real world. An idealization law is formulated -- a law which is exactly (non-vacuously) fulfilled only in an ideal model, not in any real system. Then the idealizing assumptions are abrogated one by one-it is a process of gradual factualization, of the transition (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   6 citations  
  • Idealization and factualization in science.W.?Adys?Aw Krajewski - 1977 - Erkenntnis 11 (1):323-339.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  • Counterfactuals and Scientific Realism.Michael J. Shaffer - 2012 - London and Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
    This book is a sustained defense of the compatibility of the presence of idealizations in the sciences and scientific realism. So, the book is essentially a detailed response to the infamous arguments raised by Nancy Cartwright to the effect that idealization and scientific realism are incompatible.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   10 citations  
  • (2 other versions)Review article: Correlations and causes.D. Papineau - 1991 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 42 (3):397-412.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   7 citations  
  • Weber's Ideal Types as Models in the Social Sciences.Friedel Weinert - 1996 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 41:73-93.
    There has recently been a great interest in models in the natural sciences. Models are used mainly for their representational functions: they help to concretize certain relationships between parameters in studying physical systems. For instance, we might be interested in representing how the planets orbit around the sun—a scale model of the solar system is an ideal tool for achieving this end. We are free to leave out one or two planets or ignore the moons which many of the planets (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark