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The Relevance of Kant’s Philosophy for Nineteenth Century Sciences:Review of M. Friedman and A. Nordmann (eds.) The Kantian legacy in Nineteenth Century Science
Galileo's Mathematization of Nature at the Crossroad between the Empiricist and the Kantian Tradition
Perspectival modeling
The goal of this article is to address the problem of inconsistent models, and the challenge it poses for perspectivism. I analyse the argument, draw attention to some hidden premises behind it, and deflate them. Then I introduce the notion of perspectival models as a distinctive class of modeling practices, whose primary function is exploratory. I illustrate perspectival modeling with two examples taken from contemporary high-energy physics at LHC, CERN, which are designed to show how a plurality of seemingly incompatible models (suitably understood) is\ud
methodologically crucial to advance the realist quest in cutting-edge areas of scientific inquiry
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