Models, robustness, and non-causal explanation: a foray into cognitive science and biology

Irvine, Elizabeth

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Models, robustness, and non-causal explanation: a foray into cognitive science and biology

Date

2014

Authors

Irvine, Elizabeth

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

This paper is aimed at identifying how a model's explanatory power is constructed and identified, particularly in the practice of template-based modeling (Humphreys, Philos Sci 69:1-11, 2002 ; Extending ourselves: computational science, empiricism, and sc