Idealization XII: Correcting the Model
Idealization and Abstraction in the Sciences
Published on 1. January 2005
Book
Hardback
293 pages
978-90-420-1955-3 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
644 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-1955-3 (9789042019553)
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Content
Preface
Analytical
Kevin D. HOOVER: Quantitative Evaluation of Idealized Models in the New Classical Macroeconomics
John PEMBERTON: Why Idealized Models in Economics Have Limited Use
Amos FUNKENSTEIN: The Revival of Aristotle's Nature
James R. GRIESEMER: The Informational Gene and the Substantial Body: On the Generalization of Evolutionary Theory by Abstraction
Nancy J. NERSESSIAN: Abstraction via Generic Modeling in Concept Formation in Science
Margaret MORRISON: Approximating the Real: The Role of Idealizations in Physical Theory
Martin R. JONES: Idealization and Abstraction: A Framework
David S. NIVISON: Standard Time
James BOGEN and James WOODWARD: Evading the IRS
M. Norton WISE: Realism Is Dead
Ronald N. GIERE: Is Realism Dead?
Analytical
Kevin D. HOOVER: Quantitative Evaluation of Idealized Models in the New Classical Macroeconomics
John PEMBERTON: Why Idealized Models in Economics Have Limited Use
Amos FUNKENSTEIN: The Revival of Aristotle's Nature
James R. GRIESEMER: The Informational Gene and the Substantial Body: On the Generalization of Evolutionary Theory by Abstraction
Nancy J. NERSESSIAN: Abstraction via Generic Modeling in Concept Formation in Science
Margaret MORRISON: Approximating the Real: The Role of Idealizations in Physical Theory
Martin R. JONES: Idealization and Abstraction: A Framework
David S. NIVISON: Standard Time
James BOGEN and James WOODWARD: Evading the IRS
M. Norton WISE: Realism Is Dead
Ronald N. GIERE: Is Realism Dead?