Fictions in Science : Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization - Mauricio Suarez

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Fictions in Science

Name: Fictions in Science
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization

By: Mauricio Suarez (Editor)

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Paperback | 10 November 2010

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Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides us with a realistic description of the world down to the last detail. The essays collected in this bookâ"written by some of the leading experts in the fieldâ"challenge this popular image right at its heart, taking as their starting point that science trades not only in truth, but in fiction, too.

With case studies that range from physics to economics and to biology, Fictions in Science reveals that fictions are as ubiquitous in scientific narratives and practice as they are in any other human endeavor, including literature and art. Of course scientific activity, most prominently in the formal sciences, employs logically precise algorithmic thinking. However, the key to the predictive and technological success of the empirical sciences might well lie elsewhereâ"perhaps even in scientistsâ extraordinary creative imagination instead. As these essays demonstrate, within the bounds of what is empirically possible, a scientistâs capacity for invention and creative thinking matches that of any writer or artist.

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