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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
卷 86, 期 5, 页码 869-881出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/705494
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资金
- European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [H2020-ERC-2014-CoG 647272]
I analyze the exploratory function of two main modeling practices: targetless fictional models and hypothetical perspectival models. In both cases, I argue, modelers invite us to imagine or conceive something about the target system, which is known to be either nonexistent (fictional models) or just hypothetical (in perspectival models). I clarify the kind of imagining or conceiving involved in each modeling practice, and I show how each-in its own right-delivers important modal knowledge. I illustrate these two kinds of exploratory models with Maxwell's ether model and supersymmetric particle models at the Large Hadron Collider.
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