The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling

An outstanding reference source to this fast-growing area and is the first volume of its kind. Essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy of science, formal epistemology, and philosophy of social science, and for those in related fields such as computer science and information technology.

Auteur

Tarja Knuuttila is a Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has developed an artifactual account of models. Knuuttila focuses, in her research, on scientific modeling, interdisciplinarity, and the modal dimension of science with a special focus on synthetic biology, engineering sciences, and economics.

Natalia Carrillo is an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is interested in philosophical problems at the intersection of philosophy of science and technology, especially artifactuality and abstraction in modeling practices, and the role of analogies and metaphors in science.

Rami Koskinen is a Researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria, with an interest in the general philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and epistemology. He has been investigating modal reasoning in the sciences, modeling in synthetic biology, and the question of multiple realizability.