260029 Varieties of Modeling (S) (WiSe 2021/2022)
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The statistician George Box famously said: "All models are wrong, but some are useful". This statements highlights that although models distort and abstract away the systems they describe, they can help scientists in gaining knowledge about nature. In this seminar, we lookat a variety of different models and ask what role they play in scientific practice. We discuss questions such as: do models represent nature? When do models explain a phenomenon? How do models capture processes at different scales? What is exploratory modeling? We try to answer these questions based on philosophical texts about models in different disciplines (physics, ecology, neuroscience, climate science)
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corona.philosophie@uni-bielefeld.de at the earliest possible date. We will then work on a for a solution of your problem
Bibliography
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Gelfert, A. (2014). Doing science with models. A philosophical primer. Berlin: Springer.
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