Scientific Models

In Sarkar Sahotra (ed.), The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 2. Routledge (2005)
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Abstract

Models are of central importance in many scientific contexts. The roles the MIT bag model of the nucleon, the billiard ball model of a gas, the Bohr model of the atom, the Gaussian-chain model of a polymer, the Lorenz model of the atmosphere, the Lotka- Volterra model of predator-prey interaction, agent-based and evolutionary models of social interaction, or general equilibrium models of markets play in their respective domains are cases in point.

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Roman Frigg
London School of Economics
Stephan Hartmann
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München

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