Nowak, Models, and the Lessons of Neo-Kantianism

In: Organon F, vol. 30, no. 2

Stephen Turner

Detaily:

Rok, strany: 2023, 165 - 170

Jazyk: eng

Kľúčové slová:

Ideal-types; idealization; Leszek Nowak; models; neo- Kantianism; Poznań School of Methodology; underdetermination.

Typ článku: Discussion Note

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30208

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O článku:

Models are the coin of the realm in current philosophy of science, as they are in science itself, having replaced laws and theories as the primary strategy. Logical Positivism tried to erase the older neo-Kantian distinction between ideal constructions and reality. It returns in the case of models. Nowak’s concept of idealization pro- vided an alternative account of this issue. It construed model application as concretizations of hypotheses which improve by accounting for exceptions. This appears to account for physical law. But it raises the problem of uniqueness: is the result unique, as physical law should be? Neo-Kantianism failed this test. Its solutions were circular justifications for claims of uniqueness. Nowak inherited the problem without resolving it.

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Turner, S. 2023. Nowak, Models, and the Lessons of Neo-Kantianism. In Organon F, vol. 30, no.2, pp. 165-170. 1335-0668. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30208

APA:

Turner, S. (2023). Nowak, Models, and the Lessons of Neo-Kantianism. Organon F, 30(2), 165-170. 1335-0668. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30208

O vydaní:

Vydavateľ: Filozofický ústav SAV, Filosofický ústav AVČR

Publikované: 1. 7. 2023

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