Idealization XIV : : models in science / / edited by Giacomo Borbone, Krzysztof Brzechczyn.

• Superior document: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Volume 108
• TeilnehmendeR: Borbone, Giacomo,; Brzechczyn, Krzysztof,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill-Rodopi,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; Volume 108.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Idealization XIV: Models in Science offers a detailed ontological, epistemological and historical account of the role of models in scientific practice. The volume contains contributions of different international scholars who developed many aspects of the use of idealizations and models both in the natural and the social sciences. This volume is particularly relevant because it offers original contributions concerning one of the main topic in philosophy of science: the role of models in such branches of the sciences and the humanities like comparative historical sociology, economics, history, linguistics and political philosophy. Contributors are: Giacomo Borbone, Krzysztof Brzechczyn, Mieszko Ciesielski, Adam Czerniak, Xavier de Donato Rodríguez, José L. Falguera, Adolfo García de la Sienra, Lidia Godek, Igor Hanzel, Łukasz Hardt, Krzysztof Kiedrowski, Barbara Konat, Zenonas Norkus, Piotr Przybysz, Piotr Szwochert

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Giacomo Borbone and Krzysztof Brzechczyn -- The Role of Models in Science: An Introduction / Giacomo Borbone and Krzysztof Brzechczyn -- On Fictions, Theoretical Entities, and Ideal Objects: Applying Zalta’s Abstract Objects Theory to Scientific Theories / Xavier de Donato Rodríguez and José L. Falguera -- The Inherent Type of Scienific Law, The Idealized Types of Scientific Law / Igor Hanzel -- On Deformational Modeling: Max Weber’s Concept of Idealization / Lidia Godek -- On Reduction in the Idealizational Theory of Science: A Case Study of the Relationship between the Concept of Rational Act and the Concept of a Habitual-Rational Action / Mieszko Ciesielski -- Idealization in Economics: A Structuralist View / Adolfo García de la Sienra -- Between Isolations and Constructions: Economic Models as Believable Worlds / Łukasz Hardt -- The Fallacy of the Reification of Idealization in Economic Research / Adam Czerniak -- Strategies of Comparative Analysis in Historical Comparative Sociology: An Attempt at an Explication within the Conceptual Framework of the Idealizational Theory of Science / Krzysztof Brzechczyn -- The Structure of Idealization in Noam Chomsky’s Generativist Theory / Barbara Konat -- The Method of Idealization and Concretization on the Ground of Negativistic Unitarian Metaphysics / Krzysztof Kiedrowski -- The Choice of the Principles of Justice in the Political Philosophy of John Rawls: An Idealizational Interpretation / Piotr Przybysz -- Inductive Modeling and Discursive Idealization in Scenario Planning / Zenonas Norkus -- Historical Narration in the Light of the Idealizational Theory of Science: A Recapitulation and Expansion / Piotr Szwochert.